| 1: The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
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| 2: To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of
understanding; |
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To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment,
and equity; |
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| 4: To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and
discretion. |
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| 5: A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of
understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: |
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| 6: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of
the wise, and their dark sayings. |
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| 7: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools
despise wisdom and instruction. |
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| 8: My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not
the law of thy mother: |
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| 9: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and
chains about thy neck. |
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| 10: My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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| 11: If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us
lurk privily for the innocent without cause: |
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| 12: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as
those that go down into the pit: |
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| 13: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our
houses with spoil: |
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| 14: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
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| 15: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot
from their path: |
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| 16: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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| 17: Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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| 18: And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for
their own lives. |
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| 19: So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which
taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
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| 20: Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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| 21: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings
of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, |
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| 22: How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the
scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? |
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| 23: Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit
unto you, I will make known my words unto you. |
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| 24: Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out
my hand, and no man regarded; |
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| 25: But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of
my reproof: |
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| 26: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your
fear cometh; |
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| 27: When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction
cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. |
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| 28: Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they
shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: |
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| 29: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of
the LORD: |
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| 30: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
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| 31: Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and
be filled with their own devices. |
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| 32: For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
prosperity of fools shall destroy them. |
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| 33: But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be
quiet from fear of evil. |
