# Proverbs 1 [[Psalms 150|←]] • [[Proverbs 2|→]] --- ### 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; ### 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; ### 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; ### 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. ### 5 A wise will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: ### 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. ### 7 The fear of the Lord the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction. ### 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ### 9 For they an ornament 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 the grave; 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 Cast in thy lot among us; let us 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 make haste to shed blood. ### 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. ### 18 And they lay wait for their blood; they lurk privily for their lives. ### 19 So the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; taketh away the life of the owners thereof. ### 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: ### 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, ### 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? ### 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. ### 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; ### 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: ### 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; ### 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. ### 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: ### 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: ### 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 turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. ### 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.