◄ Proverbs 1 ►
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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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Psalm 150
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