1Proverbs 1

CHAP. I. / 1 The vse of the Prouerbes. 7 An exhortation to feare God and beleeue his word. 10 To auoyd the intisings of sinners. 20 Wisdome complaineth of her contempt. 24 She threatneth her contemner

1The Prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, King of Israel,Select Proverbs 1:1

2To knowe wisedome and instruction, to perceiue the words of vnderstanding,Select Proverbs 1:2

3To receiue the instruction of wisdome, iustice, and iudgement & equitie,Select Proverbs 1:3

4To giue subtiltie to the simple, to the yong man knowledge and discretion.Select Proverbs 1:4

5A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:Select Proverbs 1:5

6To vnderstand a prouerbe, and the interpretation; the wordes of the wise, and their darke sayings.Select Proverbs 1:6

7The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.Select Proverbs 1:7

8My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.Select Proverbs 1:8

9For they shall be an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke.Select Proverbs 1:9

10My sonne, if sinners entise thee, consent thou not.Select Proverbs 1:10

11If they say, Come with vs, let vs lay wait for blood, let vs lurke priuily for the innocent without cause:Select Proverbs 1:11

12Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:Select Proverbs 1:12

13Wee shall finde all precious substance, wee shall fill our houses with spoile:Select Proverbs 1:13

14Cast in thy lot among vs, let vs all haue one purse:Select Proverbs 1:14

15My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them; refraine thy foot from their path:Select Proverbs 1:15

16For their feete runne to euil, and make haste to shed blood.Select Proverbs 1:16

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

18And they lay wait for their owne blood, they lurke priuily for their owne liues.Select Proverbs 1:18

19So are the waies of euery one that is greedie of gaine: which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.Select Proverbs 1:19

20Wisedome crieth without, she vttereth her voice in the streets:Select Proverbs 1:20

21Shee crieth in the chiefe place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she vttereth her words, saying,Select Proverbs 1:21

22How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge?Select Proverbs 1:22

23Turne you at my reproofe: behold, I will powre out my spirit vnto you, I will make knowen my wordes vnto you.Select Proverbs 1:23

24Because I haue called, and yee refused, I haue stretched out my hand, and no man regarded:Select Proverbs 1:24

25But ye haue set at nought all my counsell, & would none of my reproofe:Select Proverbs 1:25

26I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth.Select Proverbs 1:26

27When your feare commeth as desolation, and your destruction commeth as a whirlewinde; when distresse and anguish commeth vpon you:Select Proverbs 1:27

28Then shall they call vpon mee, but I will not answere; they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:Select Proverbs 1:28

29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lord.Select Proverbs 1:29

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

31Therefore shall they eate of the fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuices.Select Proverbs 1:31

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

33But who so hearkneth vnto mee, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from feare of euill.Select Proverbs 1:33