PRO-1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;



PRO-1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of 
understanding;



PRO-1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and 
judgment, and equity;



PRO-1:4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man 
knowledge and discretion.



PRO-1:5 A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and 
a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:



PRO-1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the 
words of the wise, and their dark sayings.



PRO-1:7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: 
[but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.



PRO-1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake 
not the law of thy mother:



PRO-1:9 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, 
and chains about thy neck.



PRO-1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.



PRO-1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, 
let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:



PRO-1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, 
as those that go down into the pit:



PRO-1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our 
houses with spoil:



PRO-1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:



PRO-1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy 
foot from their path:



PRO-1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed 
blood.



PRO-1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any 
bird.



PRO-1:18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk 
privily for their [own] lives.



PRO-1:19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; 
[which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.



PRO-1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the 
streets:



PRO-1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the 
openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, 
[saying],



PRO-1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and 
the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?



PRO-1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my 
spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.



PRO-1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched 
out my hand, and no man regarded;



PRO-1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would 
none of my reproof:



PRO-1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when 
your fear cometh;



PRO-1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your 
destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish 
cometh upon you.



PRO-1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; 
they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:



PRO-1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the 
fear of the LORD:



PRO-1:30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my 
reproof.



PRO-1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, 
and be filled with their own devices.



PRO-1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and 
the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.



PRO-1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and 
shall be quiet from fear of evil.





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