Proverbs 1:1-19
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1 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 unto 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 thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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11 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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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 spoil:
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14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
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15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.