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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