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vw@Proverbs:1:1 @ The Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

vw@Proverbs:1:2 @ To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

vw@Proverbs:1:3 @ to receive instruction in wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

vw@Proverbs:1:4 @ to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man.

vw@Proverbs:1:5 @ The wise hears and increases learning, and the one of understanding gets wise counsel,

vw@Proverbs:1:6 @ to understand a proverb and an enigma; the words of the wise, and their difficult sayings.

vw@Proverbs:1:7 @ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

vw@Proverbs:1:8 @ My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

vw@Proverbs:1:9 @ for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains around your neck.

vw@Proverbs:1:10 @ My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

vw@Proverbs:1:11 @ If they say, Walk with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause,

vw@Proverbs:1:12 @ let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the Pit,

vw@Proverbs:1:13 @ we shall find all sorts of precious stuff, we shall fill our houses with plunder;

vw@Proverbs:1:14 @ cast in your lot among us, let us all have one purse.

vw@Proverbs:1:15 @ My son, do not walk in the way with them! Withhold your foot from their path;

vw@Proverbs:1:16 @ for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

vw@Proverbs:1:17 @ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

vw@Proverbs:1:18 @ And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own souls.

vw@Proverbs:1:19 @ So are the ways of everyone who gets unjust gain; it takes away the soul of its master.

vw@Proverbs:1:20 @ Wisdom cries aloud outside; she utters her voice in the square;

vw@Proverbs:1:21 @ she calls out over the tumult; at the openings of the gates, in the city she utters her words:

vw@Proverbs:1:22 @ How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity; and those who scorn desire their scorning; and fools hate knowledge?

vw@Proverbs:1:23 @ Turn back at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you; I will make my words known to you.

vw@Proverbs:1:24 @ Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one pays attention,

vw@Proverbs:1:25 @ but you have ignored all my counsel, and have not desired my reproof:

vw@Proverbs:1:26 @ I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your terror comes;

vw@Proverbs:1:27 @ when your terror comes like a storm; and your devastation arrives like a tempest, when distress and anguish come upon you.

vw@Proverbs:1:28 @ Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

vw@Proverbs:1:29 @ Because they hated knowledge and chose not the fear of Jehovah.

vw@Proverbs:1:30 @ They did not desire my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

vw@Proverbs:1:31 @ Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices.

vw@Proverbs:1:32 @ For the turning away of the simple kills them, and the ease of fools destroys them.

vw@Proverbs:1:33 @ But whoever listens to me shall live in confidence, and shall rest securely from the dread of evil.

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