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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”— |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.” |
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