1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;studyinterlinear
2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;studyinterlinear
3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;studyinterlinear
4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.studyinterlinear
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:studyinterlinear
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.studyinterlinear
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.studyinterlinear
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:studyinterlinear
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.studyinterlinear
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.studyinterlinear
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:studyinterlinear
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:studyinterlinear
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:studyinterlinear
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:studyinterlinear
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:studyinterlinear
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.studyinterlinear
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.studyinterlinear
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.studyinterlinear
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.studyinterlinear
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:studyinterlinear
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,studyinterlinear
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?studyinterlinear
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.studyinterlinear
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;studyinterlinear
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:studyinterlinear
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;studyinterlinear
27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.studyinterlinear
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:studyinterlinear
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:studyinterlinear
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.studyinterlinear
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.studyinterlinear
32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.studyinterlinear
33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.studyinterlinear