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Proverbs 1
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1The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,
1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2To know wisdom, and instruction:
2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
30Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.