Proverbs 1 (TRV)

From Textus Receptus

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• 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:

• 2 To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding,

• 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity;

• 4 To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

• 5 A wise man will hear and shall increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,

• 6 To understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their mysteries.

• 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

• 8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

• 9 For they will be an ornament of grace on your head, and chains about your neck.

• 10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

• 11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait to shed blood; let us lurk secretly for the innocent without a reason;

• 12 Let us swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down to the Pit;

• 13 We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, we shall fill our houses with spoil;

• 14 Cast in your lot among us, let us all have one purse”

• 15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, keep your foot from their path;

• 16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

• 17 Surely, in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird;

• 18 And they lie in wait for their own blood, they lurk secretly for their own lives.

• 19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; which takes away the life of its owners of it.

• 20 Wisdom calls aloud outside; she raises her voice in the streets.

• 21 She cries out in the chief place of concourse, At the openings of the gates, in the city she utters her words, saying:

• 22 “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.

• 23 Turn at my rebuke; behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

• 24 Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

• 25 Because you ignored all my counsel, and would have none of my reproof,

• 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes,

• 27 When your fear comes like a storm, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

• 28 “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

• 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,

• 30 They would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof.

• 31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled to the full with their own devices.

• 32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;

• 33 But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, and will be safe from the fear of evil.”