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1:1  The Proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
1:2  to know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
1:3  to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity;
1:4  to give subtlety to the simple, and to the young man knowledge and discretion.
1:5  A wise man will hear and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsel
1:6  to understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
1:7  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1:8  My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother;
1:9  for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
1:10  My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
1:11  If they say, “Come with us; let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
1:12  let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down to the pit;
1:13  we shall find much precious substance, 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, walk not thou in the way with them; restrain thy foot from their path;
1:16  for their feet 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 lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
1:19  So are the ways of every one that is greedy for gain, which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
1:20  Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets.
1:21  She crieth in the chief places of concourse, in the openings of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
1:22  “How long, ye simple ones, will ye love to be simple, and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
1:23  Turn you 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 man heeded,
1:25  but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,
1:26  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh,
1:27  when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
1:28  Then shall they 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 would have none of my counsel, and they despised all my reproof:
1:31  therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own ways, and be filled with their own devices.
1:32  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them;
1:33  but whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall have quiet from fear of evil.”