Proverbs 1:1-33 KJV‬


[1] The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

[2] To know wisdom and instruction; To perceive the words of understanding;

[3] To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, and judgment, and equity;

[4] To give subtilty to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion.

[5] A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; And a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

[6] To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

[7] The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

[8] My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

[9] For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

[10] My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

[11] If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

[12] Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; And whole, as those that go down into the pit:

[13] We shall find all precious substance, We shall fill our houses with spoil:

[14] Cast in thy lot among us; Let us all have one purse:

[15] My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:

[16] For their feet run to evil, And make haste to shed blood.
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[17] Surely in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird.

[18] And they lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

[19] So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; Which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

[20] Wisdom crieth without; She uttereth her voice in the streets:

[21] She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: In the city she uttereth her words, saying,

[22] How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge?

[23] Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

[24] Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

[25] But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:

[26] I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

[27] When your fear cometh as desolation, And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish cometh upon you.

[28] Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

[29] For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of the LORD:

[30] They would none of my counsel: They despised all my reproof.

[31] Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.

[32] For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

[33] But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, And shall be quiet from fear of evil.