Proverbs 1:1–19

*The aproverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

2  To know wisdom and binstruction;

To cperceive the words of dunderstanding;

3  To receive the binstruction of wisdom,

eJustice, and judgment, and †equity;

4  To give fsubtilty to the gsimple,

To the young man knowledge and ||discretion.

5  A wise man will hear, and hwill increase ilearning;

And a man of understanding shall iiattain unto jwise counsels:

6  To cunderstand a aproverb, and ||the interpretation;

The words of the wise, and their kdark sayings.

7  lThe fear of the Lord is ||the beginning of knowledge:

But llfools despise wisdom and binstruction.

8  mMy son, hear the binstruction of thy father,

And nforsake not the law of thy mother:

9  For they shall be †an ornament of grace unto thy head,

And ochains about thy pneck.

10  My son, qif sinners entice thee,

Consent thou not.

11  If they say, Come with us, let us rlay wait for blood,

Let us slurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12  Let us uswallow them up alive vas the grave;

And whole, was 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, qxwalk not thou in the way with them;

Refrain thy foot from their path:

16  yFor their feet run to evil,

And make haste to shed blood.

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

18  And they clay wait for their own blood;

They clurk privily for their own lives.

19  So are the ways of every one dthat is greedy of gain;

Which taketh away the life of ddthe owners thereof.