Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, the king of Israel:
The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the sayings of understanding;
To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,
3 To accept the instruction of intelligence, righteousness, and justice, and equity;
To receiue instruction to do wisely, by iustice and iudgement and equitie,
4 To give to the simple prudence, to the youth knowledge and discretion.
To giue vnto the simple, sharpenesse of wit, and to the childe knowledge and discretion.
5 The wise will hear, and will increase [his] information; and the man of understanding will obtain wise counsels:
A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,
6 To understand a proverb, and a sage sentence; the words of the wise, and their riddles.
To vnderstand a parable, and the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools [alone] despise.
The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and cast not off the teaching of thy mother;
My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.
9 For a wreath of grace are they unto thy head, and chains for thy throat.
For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.
10 My son, if sinners wish to entice thee, consent thou not.
My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.
11 If they should say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us watch in concealment for the uselessly innocent;
If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:
12 We will swallow them up like the grave alive; and the men of integrity, as those that go down into the pit; (Sheol h7585)
We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit: (Sheol h7585)
13 We shall find all [kinds of] precious wealth, we will fill our houses with booty;
We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:
14 Thy lot must thou cast in our midst; one purse shall be for us all:
Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:
15 My son, walk not thou on the way with them; withhold thy foot from their path;
My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.
16 For their feet run after evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
For their feete runne to euill, and make haste to shed blood.
17 For uselessly is the net spread out before the eyes of every winged bird:
Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
18 While they lie in wait for their [own] blood; they watch in concealment for their [own] lives.
So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
19 So are the paths of every one that is greedy after [unlawful] gain; it taketh away the life of those that own it.
Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom crieth loudly without; in the public places she uttereth her voice;
Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.
21 At the corner of noisy streets she calleth, at the entrances of gates; in the city she sayeth her speeches:
She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?
23 Turn back to my admonition: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)
24 Whereas I called, and ye refused; I stretched out my hand, and no man was attentive;
Because I haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.
25 And ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would not accept my admonition:
But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.
26 [Therefore] I also will truly laugh at your calamity; I will deride [you] when your terror cometh;
I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.
27 When your terror cometh like the tempest-cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction.
Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,
28 Then will they call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me;
Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,
29 For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;
Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.
30 [That] they would not attend to my counsel: [that] they rejected all my admonition.
They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and from their own counsels shall they be satisfied.
Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.
32 For the defection of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will cause them to be lost.
For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.
33 But he that hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from the dread of evil.
But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.
