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| | Pro 1:1 | The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
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| | Pro 1:2 | for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;
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| | Pro 1:3 | for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair;
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| | Pro 1:4 | for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young--
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| | Pro 1:5 | let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance--
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| | Pro 1:6 | for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
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| | Pro 1:7 | The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
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| | Pro 1:8 | Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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| | Pro 1:9 | They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
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| | Pro 1:10 | My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
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| | Pro 1:11 | If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul;
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| | Pro 1:12 | let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
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| | Pro 1:13 | we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
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| | Pro 1:14 | throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse"--
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| | Pro 1:15 | my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
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| | Pro 1:16 | for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.
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| | Pro 1:17 | How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
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| | Pro 1:18 | These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!
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| | Pro 1:19 | Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
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| | Pro 1:20 | Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
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| | Pro 1:21 | at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
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| | Pro 1:22 | "How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
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| | Pro 1:23 | If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
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| | Pro 1:24 | But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
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| | Pro 1:25 | since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
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| | Pro 1:26 | I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you--
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| | Pro 1:27 | when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
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| | Pro 1:28 | "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
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| | Pro 1:29 | Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD,
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| | Pro 1:30 | since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
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| | Pro 1:31 | they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
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| | Pro 1:32 | For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
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| | Pro 1:33 | but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
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