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The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
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To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
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To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness and judgment and equity;
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To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion:
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That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; and that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
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To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
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My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
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Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
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We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;
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Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
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My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
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For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:
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And these lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own lives.
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So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; she uttereth her voice in the broad places;
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She crieth in the chief place of concourse; at the entering in of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
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How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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Turn you at my reproof: 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; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
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But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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When your fear cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.
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Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
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For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
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They would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof:
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Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.