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001:001 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 001:002 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 001:003 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 001:004 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 001:005 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 001:006 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 001:007 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 001:008 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 001:009 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. 001:010 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 001:011 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 001:012 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 001:013 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 001:014 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 001:015 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 001:016 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 001:017 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 001:018 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 001:019 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 001:020 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 001:021 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 001:022 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 001:023 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 001:024 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 001:025 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 001:026 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 001:027 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 001:028 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 001:029 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 001:030 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 001:031 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 001:032 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 001:033 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
002:001 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 002:002 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 002:003 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 002:004 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 002:005 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 002:006 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. 002:007 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. 002:008 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. 002:009 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. 002:010 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 002:011 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 002:012 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 002:013 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 002:014 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 002:015 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 002:016 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; 002:017 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. 002:018 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. 002:019 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. 002:020 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. 002:021 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. 002:022 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
003:001 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 003:002 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 003:003 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 003:004 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 003:005 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 003:006 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. 003:007 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. 003:008 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. 003:009 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 003:010 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. 003:011 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 003:012 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. 003:013 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 003:014 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. 003:015 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. 003:016 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. 003:017 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 003:018 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her. 003:019 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. 003:020 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. 003:021 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 003:022 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. 003:023 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. 003:024 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. 003:025 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. 003:026 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. 003:027 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. 003:028 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee. 003:029 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. 003:030 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. 003:031 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. 003:032 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous. 003:033 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. 003:034 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. 003:035 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
004:001 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 004:002 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 004:003 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 004:004 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 004:005 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 004:006 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. 004:007 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 004:008 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 004:009 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. 004:010 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. 004:011 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. 004:012 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. 004:013 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life. 004:014 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. 004:015 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. 004:016 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. 004:017 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 004:018 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 004:019 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 004:020 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 004:021 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 004:022 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 004:023 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 004:024 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 004:025 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 004:026 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 004:027 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
005:001 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 005:002 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 005:003 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 005:004 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 005:005 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 005:006 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 005:007 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. 005:008 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 005:009 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 005:010 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; 005:011 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 005:012 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 005:013 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 005:014 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 005:015 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 005:016 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 005:017 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 005:018 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 005:019 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 005:020 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? 005:021 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. 005:022 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. 005:023 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
006:001 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, 006:002 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. 006:003 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. 006:004 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. 006:005 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. 006:006 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 006:007 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 006:008 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 006:009 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 006:010 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 006:011 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. 006:012 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 006:013 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 006:014 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. 006:015 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. 006:016 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 006:017 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 006:018 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 006:019 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. 006:020 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 006:021 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 006:022 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 006:023 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 006:024 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 006:025 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 006:026 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. 006:027 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 006:028 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 006:029 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. 006:030 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; 006:031 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. 006:032 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. 006:033 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. 006:034 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. 006:035 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
007:001 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 007:002 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 007:003 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 007:004 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 007:005 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. 007:006 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 007:007 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 007:008 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 007:009 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 007:010 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 007:011 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 007:012 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 007:013 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 007:014 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 007:015 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 007:016 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. 007:017 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 007:018 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 007:019 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 007:020 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. 007:021 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 007:022 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 007:023 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. 007:024 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 007:025 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 007:026 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 007:027 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
008:001 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? 008:002 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. 008:003 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. 008:004 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. 008:005 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. 008:006 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. 008:007 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 008:008 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. 008:009 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. 008:010 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. 008:011 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. 008:012 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. 008:013 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. 008:014 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. 008:015 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. 008:016 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. 008:017 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. 008:018 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. 008:019 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. 008:020 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: 008:021 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. 008:022 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 008:023 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 008:024 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 008:025 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 008:026 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 008:027 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: 008:028 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 008:029 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: 008:030 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; 008:031 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. 008:032 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 008:033 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 008:034 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 008:035 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. 008:036 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
009:001 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 009:002 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 009:003 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 009:004 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 009:005 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 009:006 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 009:007 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. 009:008 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 009:009 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. 009:010 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. 009:011 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. 009:012 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. 009:013 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing. 009:014 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, 009:015 To call passengers who go right on their ways: 009:016 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 009:017 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. 009:018 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
010:001 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 010:002 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. 010:003 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. 010:004 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. 010:005 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame. 010:006 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 010:007 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. 010:008 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. 010:009 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. 010:010 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. 010:011 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 010:012 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. 010:013 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding. 010:014 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. 010:015 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. 010:016 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. 010:017 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. 010:018 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool. 010:019 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. 010:020 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. 010:021 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. 010:022 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. 010:023 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. 010:024 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 010:025 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation. 010:026 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him. 010:027 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. 010:028 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. 010:029 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. 010:030 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. 010:031 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. 010:032 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
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