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Proverbs 1 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:1 - The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:2 - To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:3 - To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:4 - To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:5 - A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:6 - To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:7 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The Enticement of Sinners

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:8 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:9 - For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:10 - My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:11 - If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:13 - We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:14 - Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:15 - My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:16 - For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:17 - Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:18 - And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:19 - So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.

Wisdom Warns

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:20 - Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:21 - She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:22 - How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:23 - Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:24 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:25 - But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and rejected my reproof:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:26 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:28 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:29 - For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:30 - They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:31 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32 - For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:33 - But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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The Webster Bible was translated by Noah Webster in 1833 in order to bring the language of the bible up to date. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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