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Proverbs - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
- to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
- to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness and judgment, and equity;
- to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
- He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
- to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
- The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
- for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
- My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
- If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly 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:
- cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
- -- my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
- for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
- For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
- And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
- So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
- Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
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