20_PRO_01_01 the proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
20_PRO_01_02 to know wisdom And instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
20_PRO_01_03 to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, And judgment, And equity;
20_PRO_01_04 to give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge And discretion.
20_PRO_01_05 A wise [ man] will hear, And will increase learning; And A man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
20_PRO_01_06 to understand A proverb, And the interpretation; the words of the wise, And their dark sayings.
20_PRO_01_07 the Fear of the LORD [ Is] the beginning of knowledge: [ but] fools despise wisdom And instruction.
20_PRO_01_08 my son, hear the instruction of thy Father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
20_PRO_01_09 for they [ shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
20_PRO_01_10 my son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
20_PRO_01_11 if they say, come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
20_PRO_01_12 let us swallow them up alive as the grave; And whole, as those that go down into the pit:
20_PRO_01_13 we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
20_PRO_01_14 cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
20_PRO_01_15 my son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
20_PRO_01_16 for their feet run to evil, And make haste to shed blood.
20_PRO_01_17 surely in vain the net Is spread in the sight of any bird.
20_PRO_01_18 And they lay wait for their [ own] blood; they lurk privily for their [ own] lives.
20_PRO_01_19 So [ are] the ways of every one that Is greedy of gain; [ which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20_PRO_01_20 wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
20_PRO_01_21 she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [ saying],
20_PRO_01_22 how long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge?
20_PRO_01_23 turn you at my reproof: behold, I will Pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
20_PRO_01_24 because I have called, And ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, And no man regarded;
20_PRO_01_25 but ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
20_PRO_01_26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your Fear cometh;
20_PRO_01_27 when your Fear cometh as desolation, And your destruction cometh as A whirlwind; when distress And anguish cometh upon you.
20_PRO_01_28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
20_PRO_01_29 for that they hated knowledge, And did not Choose the Fear of the LORD:
20_PRO_01_30 they would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
20_PRO_01_31 therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
20_PRO_01_32 for the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
20_PRO_01_33 but whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, And shall be quiet from Fear of evil.