| The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; |
| To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; |
| To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; |
| To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. |
| A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: |
| To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. |
| The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. |
| My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: |
| For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. |
| My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. |
| If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: |
| Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: |
| We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: |
| Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: |
| My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: |
| For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. |
| Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. |
| And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. |
| So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
| Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: |
| She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, |
| How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? |
| Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. |
| Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; |
| But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: |
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