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The proverbs of Solomon the son of David ,
king of Israel Yisra #
el #;
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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 da #
ath #:
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 ro #
sh #,
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 sh @#
owl #;
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 #
H3671 .
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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 sha #
ar #:
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 da #
ath #?
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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 sha #
avah #,
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 da #
ath #,
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 mow #
etsah #.
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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 .