Proverbs:1-8
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The proverbs of Solomon the son of David ,
king of Israel ;
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To know wisdom and instruction ;
to perceive the words of understanding ;
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To receive the instruction of wisdom ,
justice ,
and judgment ,
and equity ;
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To give subtilty to the simple ,
to the young man knowledge and discretion .
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A wise man will hear ,
and will increase learning ;
and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels :
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To understand a proverb ,
and the interpretation ;
the words of the wise ,
and their dark sayings .
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge :
but fools despise wisdom and instruction .
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My son ,
hear the instruction of thy father ,
and forsake not the law of thy mother :
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For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head ,
and chains about thy neck .
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My son ,
if sinners entice thee ,
consent thou not .
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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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Let us swallow them up alive as the grave ;
and whole ,
as those that go down into the pit :
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We shall find all precious substance ,
we shall fill our houses with spoil :
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Cast in thy lot among us ;
let us all have one purse :
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My son ,
walk not thou in the way with them ;
refrain thy foot from their path :
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For their feet run to evil ,
and make haste to shed blood .
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Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird .
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And they lay wait for their own blood ;
they lurk privily for their own lives .
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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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Wisdom crieth without ;
she uttereth her voice in the streets :
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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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How long ,
ye simple ones ,
will ye love simplicity ?
and the scorners delight in their scorning ,
and fools hate knowledge ?
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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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Because I have called ,
and ye refused ;
I have stretched out my hand ,
and no man regarded ;
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But ye have set at nought all my counsel ,
and would none of my reproof :
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I also will laugh at your calamity ;
I will mock when your fear cometh ;
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When your fear cometh as desolation ,
and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind ;
when distress and anguish cometh upon you .
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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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For that they hated knowledge ,
and did not choose the fear of the LORD :
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They would none of my counsel :
they despised all my reproof .
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Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way ,
and be filled with their own devices .
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For the turning away of the simple shall slay them ,
and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them .
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But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely ,
and shall be quiet from fear of evil .
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My son ,
if thou wilt receive my words ,
and hide my commandments with thee ;
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So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom ,
and apply thine heart to understanding ;
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Yea ,
if thou criest after knowledge ,
and liftest up thy voice for understanding ;
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If thou seekest her as silver ,
and searchest for her as for hid treasures ;
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Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD ,
and find the knowledge of God .
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For the LORD giveth wisdom :
out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding .
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He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous :
he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly .
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He keepeth the paths of judgment ,
and preserveth the way of his saints .
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Then shalt thou understand righteousness ,
and judgment ,
and equity ;
yea ,
every good path .
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When wisdom entereth into thine heart ,
and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul ;
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Discretion shall preserve thee ,
understanding shall keep thee :
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To deliver thee from the way of the evil man ,
from the man that speaketh froward things ;
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Who leave the paths of uprightness ,
to walk in the ways of darkness ;
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Who rejoice to do evil ,
and delight in the frowardness of the wicked ;
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Whose ways are crooked ,
and they froward in their paths :
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To deliver thee from the strange woman ,
even from the stranger which flattereth with her words ;
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Which forsaketh the guide of her youth ,
and forgetteth the covenant of her God .
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For her house inclineth unto death ,
and her paths unto the dead .
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None that go unto her return again ,
neither take they hold of the paths of life .
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That thou mayest walk in the way of good men ,
and keep the paths of the righteous .
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For the upright shall dwell in the land ,
and the perfect shall remain in it .
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But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth ,
and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it .
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My son ,
forget not my law ;
but let thine heart keep my commandments :
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For length of days ,
and long life ,
and peace ,
shall they add to thee .
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Let not mercy and truth forsake thee :
bind them about thy neck ;
write them upon the table of thine heart :
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So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man .
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Trust in the LORD with all thine heart ;
and lean not unto thine own understanding .
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In all thy ways acknowledge him ,
and he shall direct thy paths .
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Be not wise in thine own eyes :
fear the LORD ,
and depart from evil .
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It shall be health to thy navel ,
and marrow to thy bones .
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Honour the LORD with thy substance ,
and with the firstfruits of all thine increase :
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So shall thy barns be filled with plenty ,
and thy presses shall burst out with new wine .
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My son ,
despise not the chastening of the LORD ;
neither be weary of his correction :
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For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth ;
even as a father the son in whom he delighteth .
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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom ,
and the man that getteth understanding .
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For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver ,
and the gain thereof than fine gold .
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She is more precious than rubies :
and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her .
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Length of days is in her right hand ;
and in her left hand riches and honour .
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Her ways are ways of pleasantness ,
and all her paths are peace .
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She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her :
and happy is every one that retaineth her .
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The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth ;
by understanding hath he established the heavens .
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By his knowledge the depths are broken up ,
and the clouds drop down the dew .
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My son ,
let not them depart from thine eyes :
keep sound wisdom and discretion :
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So shall they be life unto thy soul ,
and grace to thy neck .
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Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely ,
and thy foot shall not stumble .
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When thou liest down ,
thou shalt not be afraid :
yea ,
thou shalt lie down ,
and thy sleep shall be sweet .
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Be not afraid of sudden fear ,
neither of the desolation of the wicked ,
when it cometh .
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For the LORD shall be thy confidence ,
and shall keep thy foot from being taken .
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Withhold not good from them to whom it is due ,
when it is in the power of thine hand to do it .
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Say not unto thy neighbour ,
Go ,
and come again ,
and to morrow I will give ;
when thou hast it by thee .
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Devise not evil against thy neighbour ,
seeing he dwelleth securely by thee .
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Strive not with a man without cause ,
if he have done thee no harm .
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Envy thou not the oppressor ,
and choose none of his ways .
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For the froward is abomination to the LORD :
but his secret is with the righteous .
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The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked :
but he blesseth the habitation of the just .
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Surely he scorneth the scorners :
but he giveth grace unto the lowly .
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The wise shall inherit glory :
but shame shall be the promotion of fools .
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Hear ,
ye children ,
the instruction of a father ,
and attend to know understanding .
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For I give you good doctrine ,
forsake ye not my law .
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For I was my father '
s son ,
tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother .
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He taught me also ,
and said unto me ,
Let thine heart retain my words :
keep my commandments ,
and live .
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Get wisdom ,
get understanding :
forget it not ;
neither decline from the words of my mouth .
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Forsake her not ,
and she shall preserve thee :
love her ,
and she shall keep thee .
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Wisdom is the principal thing ;
therefore get wisdom :
and with all thy getting get understanding .
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Exalt her ,
and she shall promote thee :
she shall bring thee to honour ,
when thou dost embrace her .
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She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace :
a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee .
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Hear ,
O my son ,
and receive my sayings ;
and the years of thy life shall be many .
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I have taught thee in the way of wisdom ;
I have led thee in right paths .
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When thou goest ,
thy steps shall not be straitened ;
and when thou runnest ,
thou shalt not stumble .
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Take fast hold of instruction ;
let her not go :
keep her ;
for she is thy life .
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Enter not into the path of the wicked ,
and go not in the way of evil men .
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Avoid it ,
pass not by it ,
turn from it ,
and pass away .
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For they sleep not ,
except they have done mischief ;
and their sleep is taken away ,
unless they cause some to fall .
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For they eat the bread of wickedness ,
and drink the wine of violence .
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But the path of the just is as the shining light ,
that shineth more and more unto the perfect day .
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The way of the wicked is as darkness :
they know not at what they stumble .
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My son ,
attend to my words ;
incline thine ear unto my sayings .
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Let them not depart from thine eyes ;
keep them in the midst of thine heart .
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For they are life unto those that find them ,
and health to all their flesh .
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Keep thy heart with all diligence ;
for out of it are the issues of life .
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Put away from thee a froward mouth ,
and perverse lips put far from thee .
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Let thine eyes look right on ,
and let thine eyelids look straight before thee .
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Ponder the path of thy feet ,
and let all thy ways be established .
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Turn not to the right hand nor to the left :
remove thy foot from evil .
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My son ,
attend unto my wisdom ,
and bow thine ear to my understanding :
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That thou mayest regard discretion ,
and that thy lips may keep knowledge .
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For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb ,
and her mouth is smoother than oil :
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But her end is bitter as wormwood ,
sharp as a twoedged sword .
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Her feet go down to death ;
her steps take hold on hell .
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Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life ,
her ways are moveable ,
that thou canst not know them .
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Hear me now therefore ,
O ye children ,
and depart not from the words of my mouth .
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Remove thy way far from her ,
and come not nigh the door of her house :
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Lest thou give thine honour unto others ,
and thy years unto the cruel :
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Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth ;
and thy labours be in the house of a stranger ;
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And thou mourn at the last ,
when thy flesh and thy body are consumed ,
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And say ,
How have I hated instruction ,
and my heart despised reproof ;
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And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers ,
nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me !
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I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly .
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern ,
and running waters out of thine own well .
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Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad ,
and rivers of waters in the streets .
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Let them be only thine own ,
and not strangers '
with thee .
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Let thy fountain be blessed :
and rejoice with the wife of thy youth .
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Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe ;
let her breasts satisfy thee at all times ;
and be thou ravished always with her love .
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And why wilt thou ,
my son ,
be ravished with a strange woman ,
and embrace the bosom of a stranger ?
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD ,
and he pondereth all his goings .
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His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself ,
and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins .
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He shall die without instruction ;
and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray .
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My son ,
if thou be surety for thy friend ,
if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger ,
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Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth ,
thou art taken with the words of thy mouth .
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Do this now ,
my son ,
and deliver thyself ,
when thou art come into the hand of thy friend ;
go ,
humble thyself ,
and make sure thy friend .
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Give not sleep to thine eyes ,
nor slumber to thine eyelids .
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Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter ,
and as a bird from the hand of the fowler .
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Go to the ant ,
thou sluggard ;
consider her ways ,
and be wise :
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Which having no guide ,
overseer ,
or ruler ,
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Provideth her meat in the summer ,
and gathereth her food in the harvest .
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How long wilt thou sleep ,
O sluggard ?
when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep ?
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Yet a little sleep ,
a little slumber ,
a little folding of the hands to sleep :
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So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth ,
and thy want as an armed man .
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A naughty person ,
a wicked man ,
walketh with a froward mouth .
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He winketh with his eyes ,
he speaketh with his feet ,
he teacheth with his fingers ;
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Frowardness is in his heart ,
he deviseth mischief continually ;
he soweth discord .
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Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly ;
suddenly shall he be broken without remedy .
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These six things doth the LORD hate :
yea ,
seven are an abomination unto him :
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A proud look ,
a lying tongue ,
and hands that shed innocent blood ,
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An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations ,
feet that be swift in running to mischief ,
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A false witness that speaketh lies ,
and he that soweth discord among brethren .
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My son ,
keep thy father '
s commandment ,
and forsake not the law of thy mother :
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Bind them continually upon thine heart ,
and tie them about thy neck .
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When thou goest ,
it shall lead thee ;
when thou sleepest ,
it shall keep thee ;
and when thou awakest ,
it shall talk with thee .
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For the commandment is a lamp ;
and the law is light ;
and reproofs of instruction are the way of life :
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To keep thee from the evil woman ,
from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman .
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Lust not after her beauty in thine heart ;
neither let her take thee with her eyelids .
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For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread :
and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life .
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Can a man take fire in his bosom ,
and his clothes not be burned ?
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Can one go upon hot coals ,
and his feet not be burned ?
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So he that goeth in to his neighbour '
s wife ;
whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent .
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Men do not despise a thief ,
if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry ;
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But if he be found ,
he shall restore sevenfold ;
he shall give all the substance of his house .
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But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding :
he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul .
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A wound and dishonour shall he get ;
and his reproach shall not be wiped away .
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For jealousy is the rage of a man :
therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance .
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He will not regard any ransom ;
neither will he rest content ,
though thou givest many gifts .
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My son ,
keep my words ,
and lay up my commandments with thee .
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Keep my commandments ,
and live ;
and my law as the apple of thine eye .
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Bind them upon thy fingers ,
write them upon the table of thine heart .
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Say unto wisdom ,
Thou art my sister ;
and call understanding thy kinswoman :
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman ,
from the stranger which flattereth with her words .
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement ,
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And beheld among the simple ones ,
I discerned among the youths ,
a young man void of understanding ,
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Passing through the street near her corner ;
and he went the way to her house ,
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In the twilight ,
in the evening ,
in the black and dark night :
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And ,
behold ,
there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot ,
and subtil of heart .
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She is loud and stubborn ;
her feet abide not in her house :
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Now is she without ,
now in the streets ,
and lieth in wait at every corner .)
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So she caught him ,
and kissed him ,
and with an impudent face said unto him ,
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I have peace offerings with me ;
this day have I payed my vows .
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Therefore came I forth to meet thee ,
diligently to seek thy face ,
and I have found thee .
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I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry ,
with carved works ,
with fine linen of Egypt .
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh ,
aloes ,
and cinnamon .
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Come ,
let us take our fill of love until the morning :
let us solace ourselves with loves .
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For the goodman is not at home ,
he is gone a long journey :
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He hath taken a bag of money with him ,
and will come home at the day appointed .
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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield ,
with the flattering of her lips she forced him .
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He goeth after her straightway ,
as an ox goeth to the slaughter ,
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ;
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Till a dart strike through his liver ;
as a bird hasteth to the snare ,
and knoweth not that it is for his life .
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Hearken unto me now therefore ,
O ye children ,
and attend to the words of my mouth .
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Let not thine heart decline to her ways ,
go not astray in her paths .
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For she hath cast down many wounded :
yea ,
many strong men have been slain by her .
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Her house is the way to hell ,
going down to the chambers of death .
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Doth not wisdom cry ?
and understanding put forth her voice ?
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She standeth in the top of high places ,
by the way in the places of the paths .
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She crieth at the gates ,
at the entry of the city ,
at the coming in at the doors .
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Unto you ,
O men ,
I call ;
and my voice is to the sons of man .
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O ye simple ,
understand wisdom :
and ,
ye fools ,
be ye of an understanding heart .
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Hear ;
for I will speak of excellent things ;
and the opening of my lips shall be right things .
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For my mouth shall speak truth ;
and wickedness is an abomination to my lips .
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All the words of my mouth are in righteousness ;
there is nothing froward or perverse in them .
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They are all plain to him that understandeth ,
and right to them that find knowledge .
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Receive my instruction ,
and not silver ;
and knowledge rather than choice gold .
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For wisdom is better than rubies ;
and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it .
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I wisdom dwell with prudence ,
and find out knowledge of witty inventions .
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The fear of the LORD is to hate evil :
pride ,
and arrogancy ,
and the evil way ,
and the froward mouth ,
do I hate .
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Counsel is mine ,
and sound wisdom :
I am understanding ;
I have strength .
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By me kings reign ,
and princes decree justice .
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By me princes rule ,
and nobles ,
even all the judges of the earth .
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I love them that love me ;
and those that seek me early shall find me .
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Riches and honour are with me ;
yea ,
durable riches and righteousness .
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My fruit is better than gold ,
yea ,
than fine gold ;
and my revenue than choice silver .
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I lead in the way of righteousness ,
in the midst of the paths of judgment :
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That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance ;
and I will fill their treasures .
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The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way ,
before his works of old .
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I was set up from everlasting ,
from the beginning ,
or ever the earth was .
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When there were no depths ,
I was brought forth ;
when there were no fountains abounding with water .
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Before the mountains were settled ,
before the hills was I brought forth :
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While as yet he had not made the earth ,
nor the fields ,
nor the highest part of the dust of the world .
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When he prepared the heavens ,
I was there :
when he set a compass upon the face of the depth :
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When he established the clouds above :
when he strengthened the fountains of the deep :
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When he gave to the sea his decree ,
that the waters should not pass his commandment :
when he appointed the foundations of the earth :
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Then I was by him ,
as one brought up with him :
and I was daily his delight ,
rejoicing always before him ;
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Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ;
and my delights were with the sons of men .
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Now therefore hearken unto me ,
O ye children :
for blessed are they that keep my ways .
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Hear instruction ,
and be wise ,
and refuse it not .
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Blessed is the man that heareth me ,
watching daily at my gates ,
waiting at the posts of my doors .
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For whoso findeth me findeth life ,
and shall obtain favour of the LORD .
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But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul :
all they that hate me love death .
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Wisdom hath builded her house ,
she hath hewn out her seven pillars :
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