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Proverbs 1

The Usefulness of Proverbs

Proverbs 1:1

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

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Proverbs 1:2

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

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Proverbs 1:3

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

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Proverbs 1:4

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

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Proverbs 1:5

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

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Proverbs 1:6

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

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Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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The Enticement of Sinners

Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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Proverbs 1:9

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Precepts

Exodus 23:2

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Proverbs 1:11

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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Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

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Proverbs 1:13

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

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Proverbs 1:14

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

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Proverbs 1:15

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

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Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

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Proverbs 1:17

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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Proverbs 1:18

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

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Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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Wisdom Warns

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

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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,

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Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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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.

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Proverbs 1:24

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

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Proverbs 1:25

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

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Proverbs 1:26

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

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Proverbs 1:27

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

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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:

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Proverbs 1:29

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

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Proverbs 1:30

They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

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Proverbs 1:31

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

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Proverbs 1:33

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

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