Proverbs 1
The Value of
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The Proverbs of Solomon 1 Kgs. 4.32 the son of David, king of Israel:
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To know wisdom and instruction;
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to perceive the words of
understanding; |
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to receive the instruction of wisdom,
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justice, and judgment, and
equity; |
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to give subtilty to the simple,
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to the young man knowledge and
discretion. |
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A wise man will hear, and will
increase learning;
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and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise
counsels: |
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to understand a proverb, and the
interpretation;
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the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: Job. 28.28 · Ps. 111.10 · Prov. 9.10
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but fools despise wisdom and
instruction. |
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Wisdom's
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My son, hear the instruction of thy
father,
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and forsake not the law of thy
mother: |
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for they shall be an ornament of
grace unto thy head,
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and chains about thy
neck. |
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My son, if sinners entice thee,
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay
wait for blood,
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let us lurk privily for the innocent without
cause: |
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let us swallow them up alive as the
grave;
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and whole, as those that go down into the
pit: |
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we shall find all precious substance,
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we shall fill our houses with
spoil: |
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cast in thy lot among us;
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let us all have one
purse: |
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my son, walk not thou in the way with
them;
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refrain thy foot from their
path: |
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for their feet run to evil,
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and make haste to shed
blood. |
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Surely in vain the net is spread
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in the sight of any
bird. |
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And they lay wait for their own blood;
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they lurk privily for their own lives. |
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So are the ways of every one that
is greedy of gain;
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which taketh away the life of the owners
thereof.
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Wisdom crieth without;
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she uttereth her voice in the
streets: |
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she crieth in the chief place of
concourse,
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in the openings of the gates: |
in the city she uttereth her words, Prov.
8.1-3 saying, |
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How long, ye simple ones, will ye love
simplicity?
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and the scorners delight in their scorning, |
and fools hate
knowledge? |
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Turn you at my reproof:
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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;
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I have stretched out my hand, and no man
regarded; |
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but ye have set at nought all my
counsel,
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and would none of my
reproof: |
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I also will laugh at your calamity;
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I will mock when your fear
cometh; |
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when your fear cometh as desolation,
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and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; |
when distress and anguish cometh upon
you. |
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Then shall they call upon me,
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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,
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and did not choose the fear of the LORD: |
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they would none of my counsel:
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they despised all my
reproof. |
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Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of
their own way,
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and be filled with their own
devices. |
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For the turning away of the simple shall
slay them,
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and the prosperity of fools shall destroy
them. |
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But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell
safely,
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and shall be quiet from fear of
evil. |
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