The Value of Proverbs |
| 1 | The Proverbs of Solomon 1 Kgs. 4.32 the son of David, king of Israel: |
| 2 | To know wisdom and instruction;
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| to perceive the words of understanding; |
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| 3 | to receive the instruction of wisdom,
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| justice, and judgment, and equity; |
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| 4 | to give subtilty to the simple,
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| to the young man knowledge and discretion. |
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | to understand a proverb, and the interpretation;
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| the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. |
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| 7 | 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 Warning |
| 8 | My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
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| and forsake not the law of thy mother: |
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| 9 | for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head,
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| and chains about thy neck. |
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| 10 | My son, if sinners entice thee,
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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 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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| 13 | we shall find all precious substance,
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| we shall fill our houses with spoil: |
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| 14 | cast in thy lot among us;
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| let us all have one purse: |
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| 15 | my son, walk not thou in the way with them;
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| refrain thy foot from their path: |
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| 16 | for their feet run to evil,
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| and make haste to shed blood. |
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| 17 | Surely in vain the net is spread
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| in the sight of any bird. |
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| 18 | And they lay wait for their own blood;
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| they lurk privily for their own lives. |
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| 19 | 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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| 20 | Wisdom crieth without;
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| she uttereth her voice in the streets: |
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| 21 | 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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| 22 | 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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| 23 | 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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| 24 | 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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| 25 | but ye have set at nought all my counsel,
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| and would none of my reproof: |
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| 26 | I also will laugh at your calamity;
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| I will mock when your fear cometh; |
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| 27 | 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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| 28 | 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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| 29 | for that they hated knowledge,
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| and did not choose the fear of the LORD: |
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| 30 | they would none of my counsel:
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| they despised all my reproof. |
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| 31 | 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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| 32 | 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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| 33 | But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,
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| and shall be quiet from fear of evil. |
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