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* The proverbs of Solomon the son of David , king of Israel ; * To know wisdom and instruction ; to perceive the words of understanding ; * To receive the instruction of wisdom , justice , and judgment , and equity ; * To give subtlety to the simple , to the young man knowledge and discretion . * A wise man will hear , and will increase learning ; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels : * To understand a proverb , and the interpretation ; the words of the wise , and their dark sayings . * The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge : but fools despise wisdom and instruction . * My son , hear the instruction of your father , and forsake not the law of your mother : * For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head , and chains about your neck . * My son , if sinners entice you , consent you not . * If they say , Come with us , let us lay wait for blood , let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause : * Let us swallow them up alive as the grave ; and whole , as those that go down into the pit : * We shall find all precious substance , we shall fill our houses with spoil : * Cast in your lot among us ; let us all have one purse : * My son , walk not you in the way with them ; refrain your foot from their path : * For their feet run to evil , and make haste to shed blood . * Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird . * And they lay wait for their own blood ; they lurk privately for their own lives . * So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain ; which takes away the life of the owners thereof . * Wisdom cries without ; she utters her voice in the streets : * She cries in the chief place of concourse , in the openings of the gates : in the city she utters her words , saying , * How long , you simple ones , will you love simplicity ? and the scorners delight in their scorning , and fools hate knowledge ? * Turn you at my reproof : behold , I will pour out my spirit to you , I will make known my words to you . * Because I have called , and you refused ; I have stretched out my hand , and no man regarded ; * But you have set at nothing all my counsel , and would none of my reproof : * I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your fear comes ; * When your fear comes as desolation , and your destruction comes as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish comes on you . * Then shall they call on me , but I will not answer ; they shall seek me early , but they shall not find me : * For that they hated knowledge , and did not choose the fear of the LORD : * They would none of my counsel : they despised all my reproof . * Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way , and be filled with their own devices . * For the turning away of the simple shall slay them , and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them . * But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely , and shall be quiet from fear of evil .

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