Proverbs 1 — WBMS
1Verse 1The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;Verse 2to know wisdom and knowing; to understand the words of prudence;Verse 3and to take the learning of teach-ing; to take rightfulness [or rightwise-ness], and doom, and equity;Verse 4that fellness, or wariness, be given to little children, and knowing and understanding to a young waxing man.Verse 5A wise man hearing shall be the wiser; and a man understanding shall hold governance.Verse 6He shall perceive a parable, and the expounding; the words of wise men, and the dark figurative speeches of them.Verse 7The dread of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; fools despise wisdom and teaching.Verse 8My son, hear thou the teaching of thy father, and forsake thou not the law of thy mother;Verse 9that grace be added, either increased, to thine head, and a bie to thy neck.Verse 10My son, if sinners flatter thee, assent thou not to them.Verse 11If they say, Come thou with us, set we ambush to shed blood, hide we snares of deceits against an innocent without cause;Verse 12swallow we him, as hell swallow-eth a man living; and all-whole, as going down into a pit;Verse 13we shall find all precious chattel [or substance], we shall fill our houses with spoils;Verse 14put thou lot with us, one purse be there of us all;Verse 15my son, go thou not with them; forbid thy foot from the paths of them.Verse 16For the feet of them run to evil; and they hasten to shed out blood.Verse 17But a net is laid in vain before the eyes of birds, that have wings.Verse 18Also they set ambush against their own blood; and make ready frauds, or guiles, against their own souls.Verse 19So the paths of each avaricious man ravish, or take away, the souls of them that wield.Verse 20Wisdom preacheth withoutforth; in streets it giveth his voice.Verse 21It crieth oft in the head of companies; in the leaves of [the] gates of the city it bringeth forth his words, and saith,Verse 22How long, little men in wit, love young childhood, and fools shall covet those things, that be harmful to themselves, and unprudent men shall hate knowing?Verse 23Be ye converted at my reproving; lo, I shall bring forth to you my spirit, and I shall show my words.Verse 24For I called, and ye forsook; I held forth mine hand, and none there was that beheld.Verse 25Ye have despised all my counsel; and charged not my blamings.Verse 26And I shall laugh in your perishing; and I shall scorn you, when that, that ye dread, cometh to you.Verse 27When sudden wretchedness falleth in, and perishing befalleth as tempest; when tribulation and anguish cometh on you.Verse 28Then they shall call me, and I shall not hear; they shall rise early, and they shall not find me.Verse 29For they hated teaching, and they took not the dread of the Lord,Verse 30neither they assented to my counsel, and they depraved all mine amending.Verse 31Therefore they shall eat the fruits of their way; and they shall be filled with their counsels.Verse 32The turning away of little men in wit shall slay them; and the prosperity of fools shall lose them.Verse 33But he that heareth me, shall rest without dread; and he shall use abundance, when the dread of evils is taken away.