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Proverbs 1
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,
to know wisdom and instruction;
for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,
to receive instruction in wise dealing,
and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.
to give prudence to the simple,
To impart prudence to the simple (note: The Hebrew word rendered simple in Proverbs refers to one who is naive, without moral direction, or inclined to evil.) and knowledge and discretion to the young,
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning;
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
to understand a proverb and parables,
by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
My son, listen to your father’s instruction,
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
for they will be a garland to grace your head,
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
If they say, “Come with us.
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol,
let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
We’ll find all valuable wealth.
We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
my son, don’t walk on the path with them.
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
but these lay in wait for their own blood.
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain.
Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
Wisdom calls aloud in the street.
Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
She calls at the head of noisy places.
in the main concourse (note: Or from the top of the wall) she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
Turn at my reproof.
If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
Because I have called, and you have refused;
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
but you have ignored all my counsel,
because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
I also will laugh at your disaster.
in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer.
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
They wanted none of my counsel.
They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way,
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them.
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
But whoever listens to me will dwell securely,
But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”