Proverbs 1 — GNV
1Verse 1The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,Verse 2To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,Verse 3To receiue instruction to do wisely, by iustice and iudgement and equitie,Verse 4To giue vnto the simple, sharpenesse of wit, and to the childe knowledge and discretion.Verse 5A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,Verse 6To vnderstand a parable, and the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.Verse 7The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.Verse 8My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.Verse 9For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.Verse 10My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.Verse 11If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:Verse 12We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:Verse 13We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:Verse 14Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:Verse 15My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.Verse 16For their feete runne to euill, and make haste to shed blood.Verse 17Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:Verse 18So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.Verse 19Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.Verse 20Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.Verse 21She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,Verse 22O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?Verse 23(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)Verse 24Because I haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.Verse 25But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.Verse 26I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.Verse 27Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,Verse 28Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,Verse 29Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.Verse 30They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.Verse 31Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.Verse 32For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.Verse 33But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.