Proverbs 1

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        Proverbs 1
      
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         1.  The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
      
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         2.  To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
      
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        <b>3.  To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;</b>
      
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        <b> 4.  To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.</b>
      
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         5.  A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall 
        attain unto wise counsels:
      
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         6.  To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their 
        dark sayings.
      
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        <b> 7.  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and 
        instruction.</b>
      
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         8.  My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
      
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         9.  For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
      
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        <b>10.  My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.</b>
      
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        11.  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the 
        innocent without cause:
      
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         12.  Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the 
        pit:
      
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         13.  We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
      
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         14.  Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
      
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         15.  My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
      
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         16.  For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
      
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         17.  Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
      
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         18.  And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
      
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         19.  So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of 
        the owners thereof.
      
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        20.  Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
      
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         21.  She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the 
        city she uttereth her words, saying,
      
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         22.  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their 
        scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
      
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         23.  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make 
        known my words unto you.
      
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         24.  Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man 
        regarded;
      
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         25.  But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
      
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         26.  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
      
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         27.  When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; 
        when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
      
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         28.  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but 
        they shall not find me:
      
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         29.  For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
      
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         30.  They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
      
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         31.  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own 
        devices.
      
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         32.  For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools 
        shall destroy them.
      
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         33.  But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of 
        evil.
      
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