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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”— |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it! |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square; |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech: |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.” |
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