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Proverbs 1
The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
To know wisdom, and instruction:
To understand the words of prudence: and to receive
the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment,
and equity:
To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge
and understanding.
A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that
understandeth, shall possess governments.
He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation,
the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools
despise wisdom and instruction.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake
not the law of thy mother :
That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of
gold to thy neck.
My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to
them.
If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait
for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without
cause:
Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as
one that goeth down into the pit.
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill
our houses with spoils.
Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from
their paths.
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them
that have wings.
And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood,
and practise deceits against their own souls.
So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls
of the possessors.
Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the
streets:
At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance
of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
O children, how long will you love childishness, and
fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves,
and the unwise hate knowledge?
Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit
to you, and will shew you my words.
Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my
hand, and there was none that regarded.
You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected
my reprehensions.
I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock
when that shall come to you which you feared.
When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction,
as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and
distress shall come upon you:
Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they
shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
Because they have hated instruction and received not
the fear of the Lord,
Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way,
and shall be filled with their own devices.
The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and
the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror,
and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.
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