| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 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] | 2For learning what wisdom and discipline are; for understanding insightful sayings; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3for receiving wise instruction in righteousness, justice, and integrity; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced, knowledge and discretion to a young man-- |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5a wise man will listen and increase his learning, and a discerning man will obtain guidance-- |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6for understanding a proverb or a parable, 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 discipline. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and don't reject your mother's teaching, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9for they will be a garland of grace on your head and a gold chain around your neck. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10My son, if sinners entice you, don't be persuaded. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11If they say--"Come with us! Let's set an ambush and kill someone. Let's attack some innocent person just for fun! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Let's swallow them alive, like Sheol, still healthy as they go down to the Pit. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13We'll find all kinds of valuable property and fill our houses with plunder. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Throw in your lot with us, and we'll all share our money"-- |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15my son, don't travel that road with them or set foot on their path, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16because their feet run toward trouble and they hurry to commit murder. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17It is foolish to spread a net where any bird can see it, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Wisdom calls out in the street; she raises her voice in the public squares. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21She cries out above the commotion; she speaks at the entrance of the city gates:" |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23If you respond to my warning, then I will pour out my spirit on you and teach you my words. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Since I called out and you refused, extended my hand and no one paid attention, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25since you neglected all my counsel and did not accept my correction, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I, in turn, 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 trouble and stress overcome you. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then they will call me, but I won't answer; they will search for me, but won't find me. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Because they hated knowledge, didn't choose to fear the LORD, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30were not interested in my counsel, and rejected all my correction, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31they will eat the fruit of their way and be glutted with their own schemes. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32For the turning away of the inexperienced will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33But whoever listens to me will live securely and be free from the fear of danger." |
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