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| Proverbs 1:1 | The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; | The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. |
| Proverbs 1:2 | To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; | To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason: |
| Proverbs 1:3 | To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; | To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour: |
| Proverbs 1:4 | To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. | To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose: |
| Proverbs 1:5 | A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: | (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:) |
| Proverbs 1:6 | To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. | To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings. |
| Proverbs 1:7 | The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. | The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching. |
| Proverbs 1:8 | My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: | My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother: |
| Proverbs 1:9 | For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. | For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck. |
| Proverbs 1:10 | My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. | My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them. |
| Proverbs 1:11 | If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: | If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; |
| Proverbs 1:12 | Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: | Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; |
| Proverbs 1:13 | We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: | Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; |
| Proverbs 1:14 | Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: | Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: |
| Proverbs 1:15 | My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: | My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: |
| Proverbs 1:16 | For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. | For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life. |
| Proverbs 1:17 | Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. | Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: |
| Proverbs 1:18 | And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. | And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. |
| Proverbs 1:19 | So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. | Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners. |
| Proverbs 1:20 | Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: | Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; |
| Proverbs 1:21 | She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, | Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: |
| Proverbs 1:22 | How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? | How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge? |
| Proverbs 1:23 | Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. | Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you. |
| Proverbs 1:24 | Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; | Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand; |
| Proverbs 1:25 | But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: | You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: |
| Proverbs 1:26 | I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; | So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear; |
| Proverbs 1:27 | When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. | When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. |
| Proverbs 1:28 | Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: | Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: |
| Proverbs 1:29 | For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: | For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord: |
| Proverbs 1:30 | They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. | They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them. |
| Proverbs 1:31 | Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. | So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full. |
| Proverbs 1:32 | For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. | For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction. |
| Proverbs 1:33 | But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. | But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil. |
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