1Proverbs 1

1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;Select Proverbs 1:1

2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;Select Proverbs 1:2

3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;Select Proverbs 1:3

4To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.Select Proverbs 1:4

5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:Select Proverbs 1:5

6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. ¶Select Proverbs 1:6

7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.Select Proverbs 1:7

8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:Select Proverbs 1:8

9For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck. ¶Select Proverbs 1:9

10My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.Select Proverbs 1:10

11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:Select Proverbs 1:11

12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:Select Proverbs 1:12

13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:Select Proverbs 1:13

14Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:Select Proverbs 1:14

15My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:Select Proverbs 1:15

16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.Select Proverbs 1:16

17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.Select Proverbs 1:17

18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.Select Proverbs 1:18

19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof. ¶Select Proverbs 1:19

20Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:Select Proverbs 1:20

21She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,Select Proverbs 1:21

22How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?Select Proverbs 1:22

23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you. ¶Select Proverbs 1:23

24Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;Select Proverbs 1:24

25But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:Select Proverbs 1:25

26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;Select Proverbs 1:26

27When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you.Select Proverbs 1:27

28Then shall they call on me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:Select Proverbs 1:28

29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:Select Proverbs 1:29

30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.Select Proverbs 1:30

31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.Select Proverbs 1:31

32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.Select Proverbs 1:32

33But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.Select Proverbs 1:33