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Proverbs - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
- For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
- For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
- For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.
- (The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
- For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
- Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
- Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
- For a graceful wreath `are' they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
- My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
- If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
- We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit,
- Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil,
- Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'
- My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
- For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
- Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
- And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
- So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
- Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
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