The Proverbs 1

Text size

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David king of Israel ⚑

2 To know wisdom and instruction to perceive the words of understanding ⚑

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom justice and judgment and equity ⚑

4 To give subtilty to the simple to the young man knowledge and discretion ⚑

5 A wise man will hear and will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels ⚑

6 To understand a proverb and the interpretation the words of the wise and their dark sayings ⚑

7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction ⚑

8 My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother ⚑

9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head and chains about thy neck ⚑

10 My son if sinners entice thee consent thou not ⚑

11 If they say Come with us let us lay wait for blood let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause ⚑

12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pit ⚑

13 We shall find all precious substance we shall fill our houses with spoil ⚑

14 Cast in thy lot among us let us all have one purse ⚑

15 My son walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their path ⚑

16 For their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood ⚑

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird ⚑

18 And they lay wait for their own blood they lurk privily for their own lives ⚑

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which taketh away the life of the owners thereof ⚑

20 Wisdom crieth without she uttereth her voice in the streets ⚑

21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse in the openings of the gates in the city she uttereth her words saying ⚑

22 How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge ⚑

23 Turn you at my reproof behold I will pour out my spirit unto you I will make known my words unto you ⚑

24 Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded ⚑

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof ⚑

26 I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh ⚑

27 When your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you ⚑

28 Then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me ⚑

29 For that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD ⚑

30 They would none of my counsel they despised all my reproof ⚑

31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices ⚑

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them ⚑

33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain