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Proverbs 1 📜 📕 ↷
Beginning of Knowledge
1 THE Parables of Salomon, the son of David, king of Israel.📜💬📚
2 To know wisdom, and discipline:📜💬📚
3 to understand the words of prudence: and to receive instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:📜💬📚
4 that subtility may be given to little ones, knowledge and understanding to the youngman.📜💬📚
5 the wise man hearing shall be wise: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.📜💬📚
6 He shall understand a parable, and interpretation, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.📜💬📚
7 The fear of our Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and doctrine.📜💬📚
Enticement of Sin
8 My son, hear the discipline of thy father, and leave not the law of thy mother:📜💬📚
9 that grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.📜💬📚
10 My son, if sinners shall entice thee, condescend not to them.📜💬📚
11 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares against the innocent without cause:📜💬📚
12 let us swallow him alive as hell, and whole as one descending into the lake.📜💬📚
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our house with spoils.📜💬📚
14 Cast in thy lot with us, let there be one purse of us all.📜💬📚
15 My son, walk not with them, stay thy foot from their paths.📜💬📚
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.📜💬📚
17 But a net is cast in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.📜💬📚
18 Themselves also lie in wait against their own blood, & practise deceits against their own souls.📜💬📚
19 So the paths of every covetous man, take violently the souls of the possessors.📜💬📚
Wisdom Calls Aloud
20 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she giveth her voice in the streets.📜💬📚
21 In the head of multitudes she cryeth, in the doors of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:📜💬📚
22 O children how long do you love infancy, and fools covet those things, which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge📜💬📚
23 Turn ye at my correption: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.📜💬📚
24 Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.📜💬📚
25 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.📜💬📚
26 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will scorn, when that shall come to you, which you feared.📜💬📚
27 When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction as a tempest shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:📜💬📚
28 Then shall they invocate me, and I will not hear: in the morning shall they arise, and shall not find me:📜💬📚
29 for that they have hated discipline, and not received the fear of our Lord,📜💬📚
30 nor consented to my counsel, & detracted from all my correption.📜💬📚
31 They shall eat therefore the fruits of their way, and shall be filled with their own counsels.📜💬📚
32 The aversion of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.📜💬📚
33 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy aboundance, fear of evils being taken away.📜💬📚
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