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Proverbs
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English: New American Standard Bible |
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Proverbs 1 [Commentary] 
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The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: |
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To know wisdom and instruction,
To discern the sayings of understanding,
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To receive instruction in wise behavior,
Righteousness, justice and equity;
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To give prudence to the naive,
To the youth knowledge and discretion,
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A wise man will hear and increase in learning,
And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
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To understand a proverb and a figure,
The words of the wise and their riddles.
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Hear, my son, your father's instruction
And do not forsake your mother's teaching;
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Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head
And ornaments about your neck.
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My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.
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If they say, "Come with us,
Let us lie in wait for blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
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Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
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We will find all kinds of precious wealth,
We will fill our houses with spoil;
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Throw in your lot with us,
We shall all have one purse,"
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My son, do not walk in the way with them.
Keep your feet from their path,
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For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.
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Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net
In the sight of any bird;
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But they lie in wait for their own blood;
They ambush their own lives.
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So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence;
It takes away the life of its possessors.
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Wisdom shouts in the street,
She lifts her voice in the square;
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At the head of the noisy streets she cries out;
At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:
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"How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?
And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?
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"Turn to my reproof,
Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you.
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"Because I called and you refused,
I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;
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And you neglected all my counsel
And did not want my reproof;
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I will also laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your dread comes,
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When your dread comes like a storm
And your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.
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"Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;
They will seek me diligently but they will not find me,
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Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the LORD.
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"They would not accept my counsel,
They spurned all my reproof.
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"So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way
And be satiated with their own devices.
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"For the waywardness of the naive will kill them,
And the complacency of fools will destroy them.
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"But he who listens to me shall live securely
And will be at ease from the dread of evil."
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