1Proverbs 1

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

2To know wisdom, and instruction:Select Proverbs 1:2

3To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:Select Proverbs 1:3

4To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.Select Proverbs 1:4

5A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.Select Proverbs 1:5

6He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.Select Proverbs 1:6

7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.Select Proverbs 1:7

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

9That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.Select Proverbs 1:9

10My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.Select Proverbs 1:10

11If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:Select Proverbs 1:11

12Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.Select Proverbs 1:12

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

14Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.Select Proverbs 1:14

15My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.Select Proverbs 1:15

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

17But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.Select Proverbs 1:17

18And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.Select Proverbs 1:18

19So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.Select Proverbs 1:19

20Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:Select Proverbs 1:20

21At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:Select Proverbs 1:21

22O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?Select Proverbs 1:22

23Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.Select Proverbs 1:23

24Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.Select Proverbs 1:24

25You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.Select Proverbs 1:25

26I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.Select Proverbs 1:26

27When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:Select Proverbs 1:27

28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:Select Proverbs 1:28

29Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,Select Proverbs 1:29

30Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.Select Proverbs 1:30

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

32The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.Select Proverbs 1:32

33But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.Select Proverbs 1:33