Proverbs 1:1-12 ▼

1 These are the prouerbes of Salomon the sonne of Dauid kynge of Israel:

2 to lerne wysdome nurtoure, vnderstondinge, prudence,

3 rightuousnesse, iudgment and equite.

4 That the very babes might haue wyt, and that yonge men might haue knowlege and vnderstondinge.

5 By hearinge, the wyse ma shal come by more wysdome: and by experience,

6 he shal be more apte to vnderstonde a parable, and the interpretacion therof: the wordes of the wyse, and the darcke speaches of the same.

7 The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome. But fooles despyse wysdome and nurtoure.

8 My sonne, heare thy fathers doctryne, and forsake not the lawe of yi mother:

9 for that shal brynge grace vnto thy heade, & shalbe a cheyne aboute thy necke.

10 My sonne, cosente not vnto synners,

11 yf they entyse the, and saye: come wyth us, let us laye wayte for bloude, & lurke preuely for the innocet wythout a cause:

12 let us swalowe the vp like ye hell, let us deuoure the quycke and whole, as those that go downe in to the pytt.