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The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;
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2. | To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
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3. | To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
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4. | To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
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5. | A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels;
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6. | To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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7. | The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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8. | My son, hear the instruction of your father, and don't forsake the law of your mother,
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9. | For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains around your neck.
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10. | My son, if sinners entice you, consent not.
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11. | If they say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause,
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12. | Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit,
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13. | We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with loot.
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14. | Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse."
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15. | My son, walk not in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path.
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16. | For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. |
17. | Surely the net is spread in the sight of any bird in vain,
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18. | And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.
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19. | So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the lives of the owners there.
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20. | Wisdom cries outside; she utters her voice in the streets.
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21. | She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates. In the city she utters her words, saying,
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22. | "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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23. | Turn at my reproof. Look, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.
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24. | Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
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25. | But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would have none of my reproof.
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26. | I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
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27. | When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.
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28. | Then they shall call upon me, 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, and did not choose the fear of the LORD.
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30. | They would have none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof.
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31. | Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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32. | For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fool shall destroy them.
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33. | But whoever hearkens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."
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