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1:1  The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;
1:2  to know wisdom and chastening; to understand prudent words;
1:3  to receive the chastening of prudence, justice, judgment, and equity;
1:4  to give prudence to the simple, and to the young men knowledge and council.
1:5  If the wise will hear them, doctrine shall increase, and the man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:
1:6  To understand a parable and the interpretation; the words of the wise and their enigmas.
1:7  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and chastening.
1:8  My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
1:9  For they shall be an increase of grace unto thy head and protection about thy neck.
1:10  My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.
1:11  If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause.
1:12  Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol and whole as those that go down into the pit;
1:13  We shall find all kinds of riches, we shall fill our houses with spoil.
1:14  Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
1:15  My son, do not walk in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
1:16  For their feet shall run to evil and make haste to shed blood.
1:17  Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
1:18  And they lay in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own souls.
1:19  So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of those who possess it.
1:20  Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
1:21  She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the entrance to the gates of the city she utters her words, saying,
1:22  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and the fools hate knowledge?
1:23  Return at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
1:24  Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one responded;
1:25  for because ye have disregarded all my counsel and rejected my reproof:
1:26  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;
1:27  when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.
1:28  Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
1:29  Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
1:30  They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
1:31  Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own counsel.
1:32  For the rest of the ignorant shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
1:33  But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely and shall rest from the fear of evil.