<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017049">Proverbs</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017050">Chapter 1</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1017042">&laquo; Previous Psalm</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1017084">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Proverbs of Solomon</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017051">1</a>. THE proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017052">2</a>. To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017053">3</a>. To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017054">4</a>. To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017055">5</a>. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017056">6</a>. To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017057">7</a>. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017058">8</a>. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017059">9</a>. For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017060">10</a>. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017061">11</a>. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017062">12</a>. Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017063">13</a>. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017064">14</a>. Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017065">15</a>. My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017066">16</a>. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017067">17</a>. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017068">18</a>. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017069">19</a>. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017070">20</a>. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017071">21</a>. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017072">22</a>. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?  and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017073">23</a>. Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017074">24</a>. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017075">25</a>. But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017076">26</a>. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017077">27</a>. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017078">28</a>. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017079">29</a>. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017080">30</a>. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017081">31</a>. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017082">32</a>. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017083">33</a>. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.</li>
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