Proverbios 1

¹ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: ² To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; ³ To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity; ⁴ To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion: ⁵ That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: ⁶ To understand a proverb, and a figure, __a__FOOTNOTE__a__ Proverbs 1:6 Or, riddles __b__FOOTNOTE__b__ dark sayings. ⁷ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. ⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, law of thy mother: ⁹ For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. ¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. ¹¹ If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; ¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; ¹³ We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; ¹⁴ __a__FOOTNOTE__a__ Proverbs 1:14 Or, Cast in thy lot __b__FOOTNOTE__b__ Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse: ¹⁵ My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: ¹⁸ And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. ¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof. ²⁰ Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; ²¹ She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words: ²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? ²³ Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you. ²⁴ Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded; ²⁵ But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: ²⁶ I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; ²⁷ When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you. ²⁸ Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; diligently, but they shall not find me: ²⁹ For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah, ³⁰ They would none of my counsel, They despised all my reproof. ³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. ³² For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. ³³ But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.