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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 to 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 [shalt be] an ornament of grace to 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.

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; [who] taketh away the life of its owners.

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 to you, I will make known to you my words.

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

25 - But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and rejected 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 rejected 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 whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.