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Proverbs 1 King James Version (1769 Blayney Revision)
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Proverbs 1 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David , king of Israel ; Copy 2 To know wisdom and instruction ; to perceive the words of understanding ; Copy 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom , justice , and judgment , and equity ; Copy 4 To give subtilty to the simple , to the young man knowledge and discretion . Copy 5 A wise man will hear , and will increase learning ; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels : Copy 6 To understand a proverb , and the interpretation ; the words of the wise , and their dark sayings . Copy 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge : but fools despise wisdom and instruction . Copy 8 My son , hear the instruction of thy father , and forsake not the law of thy mother : Copy 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head , and chains about thy neck . Copy 10 My son , if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Copy 11 If they say , Come with us, let us lay wait for blood , let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause : Copy 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave ; and whole , as those that go down into the pit : Copy 13 We shall find all precious substance , we shall fill our houses with spoil : Copy 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse : Copy 15 My son , walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path : Copy 16 For their feet run to evil , and make haste to shed blood . Copy 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird . Copy 18 And they lay wait for their own blood ; they lurk privily for their own lives . Copy 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain ; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Copy 20 Wisdom crieth without ; she uttereth her voice in the streets : Copy 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse , in the openings of the gates : in the city she uttereth her words , saying, Copy 22 How long, ye simple ones , will ye love simplicity ? and the scorners delight in their scorning , and fools hate knowledge ? Copy 23 Turn you at my reproof : behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Copy 24 Because I have called , and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand , and no man regarded ; Copy 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel , and would none of my reproof : Copy 26 I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your fear cometh ; Copy 27 When your fear cometh as desolation , and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Copy 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer ; they shall seek me early , but they shall not find me: Copy 29 For that they hated knowledge , and did not choose the fear of the Lord : Copy 30 They would none of my counsel : they despised all my reproof . Copy 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way , and be filled with their own devices . Copy 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Copy 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely , and shall be quiet from fear of evil . Copy
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King James Version, 1769 Blayney revision, public domain.
Word links: CrossWire KJV OSIS 2.9a (2016). https://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2011/kjv2.9a/
