Proverbs 1 — ASVBT

1Verse 1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:^{Verse 2}To know wisdom and instruction;
To discern the words of understanding;
^{Verse 3}To receive instruction in wise dealing,
In righteousness and justice and equity;
^{Verse 4}To give prudence to the simple,
To the young man knowledge and discretion:
^{Verse 5}That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;
And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
^{Verse 6}To understand a proverb, and a figure,
The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.^{Verse 7}The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge;
But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
^{Verse 8}My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the law of thy mother:
^{Verse 9}For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.
^{Verse 10}My son, if sinners entice thee,
Consent thou not.
^{Verse 11}If they say, Come with us,
Let us lay wait for blood;
Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
^{Verse 12}Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol,
And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
^{Verse 13}We shall find all precious substance;
We shall fill our houses with spoil;
^{Verse 14}Thou shalt cast thy lot among us;
We will all have one purse:
^{Verse 15}My son, walk not thou in the way with them;
Refrain thy foot from their path:
^{Verse 16}For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood.
^{Verse 17}For in vain is the net spread
In the sight of any bird:
^{Verse 18}And these lay wait for their own blood;
They lurk privily for their own lives.
^{Verse 19}So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain;
It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.^{Verse 20}Wisdom crieth aloud in the street;
She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
^{Verse 21}She crieth in the chief place of concourse;
At the entrance of the gates,
In the city, she uttereth her words:
^{Verse 22}How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
And scoffers delight them in scoffing,
And fools hate knowledge?
^{Verse 23}Turn you at my reproof:
Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you;
I will make known my words unto you.
^{Verse 24}Because I have called, and ye have refused;
I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
^{Verse 25}But ye have set at nought all my counsel,
And would none of my reproof:
^{Verse 26}I also will laugh in the day of your calamity;
I will mock when your fear cometh;
^{Verse 27}When your fear cometh as a storm,
And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind;
When distress and anguish come upon you.
^{Verse 28}Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer;
They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
^{Verse 29}For that they hated knowledge,
And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,
^{Verse 30}They would none of my counsel,
They despised all my reproof.
^{Verse 31}Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
And be filled with their own devices.
^{Verse 32}For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them,
And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
^{Verse 33}But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely,
And shall be quiet without fear of evil.