The Proverbs, Chapter 1, 1-33
Understanding to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment and equity
To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man, knowledge and discretion
A wise man will hear and will increase learning
And a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels
To understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their dark sayings
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge
But fools despise wisdom and instruction
My son hear the instruction of thy father
And forsake not the law of thy mother
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head
And chains about thy neck
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not
If they say, come with us, let us lay weight for blood
Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave and hole
As those that go down into the pit, we shall find our precious substance
We shall fill our houses with spoil, cast in thy lot among us
Let us all have one purse
My son, walk not thou in the way with them
Refrain thy foot from their path
For their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird
And they lay weight for their own blood
They lurk privily for their own lives
So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain
Which takeeth away the life of the owners thereof
Wisdom cryeth without
She uttered with her voice in the streets
She cried within the chief place of concourse
In the openings of the gates
In the city she uttered with her words saying
How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity
And the scorners delight in their scorning
And fools hate knowledge
Turn you at my reproof
Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you
I will make known my words unto you
Because I have called and ye refused
I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded
But ye have said at not all my counsel and would none of my reproof
I also will laugh at your calamity
I will mock when your fear cometh
When your fear cometh as desolation
And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind
When distress and anguish cometh upon you
Then shall they call upon me
But I will not answer
They shall seek me early
But they shall not find me
For that they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord
They would none of my counsel
They despised all my reproof
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way
And be filled with their own devices
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them
And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them
But whoso harkeneth unto me
Shall dwell safely and shall be quiet
From fear of evil
