Proverbs 1
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1The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel. 2They are for achieving wisdom and instruction, and to recognize sayings that bring insight. 3They provide education in what makes sense, living right, judging correctly, and acting fairly. 4They give discernment to the immature, knowledge and discretion to the young. 5Wise people will listen and gain in learning, and those who have good judgment will gain skills in guidance, 6understanding the proverbs and puzzles, the sayings and questions of the wise.
7Honoring the Lord is where true knowledge begins, but fools treat wisdom and good advice with contempt.
8My son, pay attention to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching. 9They are a wreath of grace to decorate your head; they are pendants for your neck.
10My son, if evil people try to tempt you, don't give into them. 11They may tell you, “Come with us. Let's go and hide, ready to kill someone. Let's ambush someone for fun! 12Let's bury them alive; let's put them in the grave while they're still healthy! 13We'll take from them all kinds of valuable things and fill our homes with the stuff we steal! 14Come and join us#1:14. Literally, “throw in your lot with us.” and we'll all share what we get!”
15My son, don't follow their ways. Don't go in that direction with them. 16For they rush to do evil; they hurry to commit violence and murder. 17There's no point in trying to lure birds into a net when they can see it. 18However, these evil people hide ready to kill others, but they themselves are the victims. They're only ambushing themselves! 19This is what happens to you if you try to become rich through crime—it kills you!
20Wisdom calls out in the streets; she#1:20. “She”: in Proverbs, wisdom is personified as a woman. shouts aloud in the squares. 21She cries out at busy corners; she explains her message at the town gates:
22“How long will you stupid people love stupidity? How long will scornful people enjoy their mocking? How long will fools hate knowledge? 23Pay attention to my warnings, and I'll pour out my deepest thoughts to you—I'll explain what I know to you.
24For I have called you, but you refused to listen; I reached out my hand to you, but you didn't care. 25You ignored everything I said; you wouldn't accept any of my warnings.
26So I'll laugh at you when you're in trouble; I'll mock you when you're in a panic. 27When panic rains down on you like a storm, when trouble hits you like a whirlwind, when sorrow and pain come on you, 28then you'll call out to me for help, but I won't answer; you'll search hard for me, but won't find me. 29Why?—because they hated knowledge, and they didn't choose to respect the Lord. 30They're not willing to accept my advice; they despise all my warnings.
31So they'll have to eat the fruit of their own choices, bloated by their own devious schemes. 32Stupid people are killed by their rebellion; foolish people are destroyed by their lack of concern. 33But everyone who listens to me will be kept safe, and will live without worrying about problems.”
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Proverbs 1
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1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
2To know wisdom and instruction;
to discern the words of understanding;
3To receive instruction in wise dealing,
In righteousness and judgement and equity;
4To give subtilty to the simple,
To the young man knowledge and discretion:
5That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;
And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
6To understand a proverb, and a figure;
The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge:
But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
And forsake not the law of thy mother:
9For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,
And chains about thy neck.
10My son, if sinners entice thee,
Consent thou not.
11If they say, Come with us,
Let us lay wait for blood,
Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol,
And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
13We shall find all precious substance,
We shall fill our houses with spoil;
14Thou shalt cast thy lot among us;
We will all have one purse:
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them;
Refrain thy foot from their path:
16For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood.
17For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:
18And these lay wait for their own blood,
They lurk privily for their own lives.
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;
It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20Wisdom crieth aloud in the street;
She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse;
At the entering in of the gates,
In the city, she uttereth her words:
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
And scorners delight them in scorning,
And fools hate knowledge?
23Turn you at my reproof:
Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,
I will make known my words unto you.
24Because I have called, and ye refused;
I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel,
And would none of my reproof:
26I also will laugh in the day of your calamity;
I will mock when your fear cometh;
27When your fear cometh as a storm,
And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind;
When distress and anguish come upon you.
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
They shall seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
29For that they hated knowledge,
And did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30They would none of my counsel;
They despised all my reproof:
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
And be filled with their own devices.
32For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them,
And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely,
And shall be quiet without fear of evil.
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