Books of Proverbs Chapter I, the proverbs of Solomon, son of David,
King of Israel, to understand wisdom and doctrine, to know prudent reasons,
to receive the Council of Prudence, Justice, Judgment, and Equity, to
give sagacity to the simple and the young, understanding and sanity. The wise
will hear and increase knowledge and understanding. He will acquire counsel to understand proverb
and declaration, words of wise men and their profound sayings. The principle of
wisdom is the fear of Jehovah. The foolish despise wisdom and teaching. Hear,
my son, thy father' s instruction, and despise not thy mother
' s direction: for they shall be a grace to thy head, and
necklaces to thy neck. My son, if sinners would deceive you, do
not consent if they say come with us. Let' s put stalks to
shed blood. Let' s get the innocent guy for no reason. We
will swallow them alive as seol and whole as those who fall into an abyss.
We' ll find wealth of all kinds, fill our houses with spoil.
Make your luck between us We all have a bag. My son,
don' t walk with them. Remove your foot from its paths because their
feet run to evil and rush to shed blood, for in vain the net
will spread before the eyes of every bird, because they, in their own
blood, put stalks and their souls tend a snare. Such are the paths
of all who are given to covetousness, which takes away the lives of their
possessors. Wisdom. He cries in the streets, raises his voice in the
squares, shouts out the main meeting places, at the entrances of the gates
of the city. He says his reasons. Until when, O simple ones,
you will love simplicity and mockers will desire to mock and fools will hate
science. Return to my rebuke. Behold, I will pour out my spirit
upon you, and I will make known to you my words, because I
called, and ye would not hear, I stretched out my hand, and
there was none to attend, but ye rejected all my counsel, and ye
refused my rebuke. I too will laugh at your calamity and mock. When
that which ye fear cometh to you, when that which ye fear cometh as
destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind when trouble and trouble come upon
you. Then they' ll call me and I won' t answer.
They will seek me in the morning and will not find me because they hated
wisdom and did not choose the fear of the LORD, nor would my counsel,
and despised all my rebuke. They shall eat of the fruit of their
way, and shall be filled with their own counsels; for the detour of
the ignorant shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall spoil them more.
He that heareth me shall dwell securely, and shall live in peace,
without fear of evil.