Proverbs:1-2
rsv@Proverbs:1:1 @ The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
rsv@Proverbs:1:2 @ That men may know wisdom and instruction, understand words of insight,
rsv@Proverbs:1:3 @ receive instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;
rsv@Proverbs:1:4 @ that prudence may be given to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth--
rsv@Proverbs:1:5 @ the wise man also may hear and increase in learning, and the man of understanding acquire skill,
rsv@Proverbs:1:6 @ to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.
rsv@Proverbs:1:7 @ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
rsv@Proverbs:1:8 @ Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and reject not your mother's teaching;
rsv@Proverbs:1:9 @ for they are a fair garland for your head, and pendants for your neck.
rsv@Proverbs:1:10 @ My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
rsv@Proverbs:1:11 @ If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us wantonly ambush the innocent;
rsv@Proverbs:1:12 @ like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit;
rsv@Proverbs:1:13 @ we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with spoil;
rsv@Proverbs:1:14 @ throw in your lot among us, we will all have one purse"--
rsv@Proverbs:1:15 @ my son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their paths;
rsv@Proverbs:1:16 @ for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
rsv@Proverbs:1:17 @ For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird;
rsv@Proverbs:1:18 @ but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they set an ambush for their own lives.
rsv@Proverbs:1:19 @ Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence; it takes away the life of its possessors.
rsv@Proverbs:1:20 @ Wisdom cries aloud in the street; in the markets she raises her voice;
rsv@Proverbs:1:21 @ on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
rsv@Proverbs:1:22 @ "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
rsv@Proverbs:1:23 @ Give heed to my reproof; behold, I will pour out my thoughts to you; I will make my words known to you.
rsv@Proverbs:1:24 @ Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,
rsv@Proverbs:1:25 @ and you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,
rsv@Proverbs:1:26 @ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you,
rsv@Proverbs:1:27 @ when panic strikes you like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
rsv@Proverbs:1:28 @ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
rsv@Proverbs:1:29 @ Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,
rsv@Proverbs:1:30 @ would have none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof,
rsv@Proverbs:1:31 @ therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.
rsv@Proverbs:1:32 @ For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence of fools destroys them;
rsv@Proverbs:1:33 @ but he who listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of evil."
rsv@Proverbs:2:1 @ My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
rsv@Proverbs:2:2 @ making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
rsv@Proverbs:2:3 @ yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
rsv@Proverbs:2:4 @ if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;
rsv@Proverbs:2:5 @ then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
rsv@Proverbs:2:6 @ For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
rsv@Proverbs:2:7 @ he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
rsv@Proverbs:2:8 @ guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints.
rsv@Proverbs:2:9 @ Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
rsv@Proverbs:2:10 @ for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
rsv@Proverbs:2:11 @ discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;
rsv@Proverbs:2:12 @ delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
rsv@Proverbs:2:13 @ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
rsv@Proverbs:2:14 @ who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
rsv@Proverbs:2:15 @ men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
rsv@Proverbs:2:16 @ You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,
rsv@Proverbs:2:17 @ who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
rsv@Proverbs:2:18 @ for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades;
rsv@Proverbs:2:19 @ none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.
rsv@Proverbs:2:20 @ So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
rsv@Proverbs:2:21 @ For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it;
rsv@Proverbs:2:22 @ but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
rsv@Proverbs:3:1 @ My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
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