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| 1:1 |
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
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| 1:2 |
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
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| 1:3 |
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
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| 1:4 |
For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.
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| 1:5 |
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
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| 1:6 |
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
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| 1:7 |
Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
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| 1:8 |
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
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| 1:9 |
For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
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| 1:10 |
My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
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| 1:11 |
If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
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| 1:12 |
We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down [to] the pit,
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| 1:13 |
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil,
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| 1:14 |
Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'
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| 1:15 |
My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
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| 1:16 |
For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
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| 1:17 |
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
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| 1:18 |
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
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| 1:19 |
So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
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| 1:20 |
Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
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| 1:21 |
At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
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| 1:22 |
`Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
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| 1:23 |
Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
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| 1:24 |
Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
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| 1:25 |
And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
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| 1:26 |
I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
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| 1:27 |
When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
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| 1:28 |
Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
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| 1:29 |
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
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| 1:30 |
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
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| 1:31 |
And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
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| 1:32 |
For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
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| 1:33 |
And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!'
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