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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To know wisdom and instruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="content">To perceive the words of understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">To receive the instruction of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="content">Justice, and judgment, and equity;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">To give subtilty to the simple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="content">To the young man knowledge and discretion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A wise </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content"> will hear, and will increase learning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="content">And a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">To understand a proverb, and the interpretation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="content">The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the beginning of knowledge:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> fools despise wisdom and instruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My son, hear the instruction of thy father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="content">And forsake not the law of thy mother:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For they </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> an ornament of grace unto thy head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="content">And chains about thy neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My son, if sinners entice thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="content">Consent thou not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="content">Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let us swallow them up alive as the grave;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="content">And whole, as those that go down into the pit:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">We shall find all precious substance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="content">We shall fill our houses with spoil:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Cast in thy lot among us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="content">Let us all have one purse:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My son, walk not thou in the way with them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="content">Refrain thy foot from their path:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For their feet run to evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="content">And make haste to shed blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Surely in vain the net is spread</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="content">In the sight of any bird.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And they lay wait for their </span><span class="add"><span class="content">own</span></span><span class="content"> blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="content">They lurk privily for their </span><span class="add"><span class="content">own</span></span><span class="content"> lives.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> taketh away the life of the owners thereof.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Cry of Wisdom</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wisdom crieth without;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="content">She uttereth her voice in the streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="content">In the city she uttereth her words, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">saying</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">And the scorners delight in their scorning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">And fools hate knowledge?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Turn you at my reproof:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">I will make known my words unto you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Because I have called, and ye refused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="content">I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But ye have set at nought all my counsel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="content">And would none of my reproof:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I also will laugh at your calamity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="content">I will mock when your fear cometh;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When your fear cometh as desolation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">When distress and anguish cometh upon you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="content">They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">For that they hated knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="content">And did not choose the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">They would none of my counsel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="content">They despised all my reproof.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="content">And be filled with their own devices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For the turning away of the simple shall slay them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="content">And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.1.33"><span class="content">And shall be quiet from fear of evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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