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Proverbs - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
- To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
- To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;
- To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:
- That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
- To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
- The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; `But' the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
- For they shall be a chaplet 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 Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
- We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;
- Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will 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 they make haste to shed blood.
- For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
- And these 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; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
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