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Proverbs 1
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The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
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To know wisdom and instruction to perceive the words of understanding
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To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
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To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
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A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding will attain to wise counsels
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To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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My son, hear the instruction of your father, and abandon not the law of your mother
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For they will be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.
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My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause
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Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit
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We will find all precious wealth, we will fill our houses with spoil
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Cast in your lot among us let us all have one purse
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My son, do not walk in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path
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For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird .
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And they ambush their own blood they that lurk secretly for their own lives.
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So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of the owners of it.
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Wisdom cries without she utters her voice in the streets
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She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words , [saying],
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How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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Turn you at my reproof: see, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.
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Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
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But you have neglected all my counsel, and accepted none of my reproof
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I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear comes
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When your fear comes as desolation , and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you.
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Then will they call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, but they will not find me
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For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD
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They accepted none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
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Therefore will they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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For the turning away of the simple will kill them, and the prosperity of fools will destroy them.
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But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, and will be quiet from fear of evil.
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