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