Pro 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding,

Pro 1:3 To receive instruction in wise behavior, Righteousness, justice and equity;

Pro 1:4 To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion,

Pro 1:5 A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,

Pro 1:6 To understand a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles.

Pro 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Pro 1:8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction And do not forsake your mother's teaching;

Pro 1:9 Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head And ornaments about your neck.

Pro 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent.

Pro 1:11 If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause;

Pro 1:12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

Pro 1:13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth, We will fill our houses with spoil;

Pro 1:14 Throw in your lot with us, We shall all have one purse,"

Pro 1:15 My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path,

Pro 1:16 For their feet run to evil And they hasten to shed blood.

Pro 1:17 Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net In the sight of any bird;

Pro 1:18 But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.

Pro 1:19 So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence; It takes away the life of its possessors.

Pro 1:20 Wisdom shouts in the street, She lifts her voice in the square;

Pro 1:21 At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:

Pro 1:22 "How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge?

Pro 1:23 "Turn to my reproof, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

Pro 1:24 "Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;

Pro 1:25 And you neglected all my counsel And did not want my reproof;

Pro 1:26 I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes,

Pro 1:27 When your dread comes like a storm And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.

Pro 1:28 "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me,

Pro 1:29 Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the Lord.

Pro 1:30 "They would not accept my counsel, They spurned all my reproof.

Pro 1:31 "So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own devices.

Pro 1:32 "For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them.

Pro 1:33 "But he who listens to me shall live securely And will be at ease from the dread of evil."

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Pro 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,

Pro 2:2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;

Pro 2:3 For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;

Pro 2:4 If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;

Pro 2:5 Then you will discern the fear of the Lord And discover the knowledge of God.

Pro 2:6 For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Pro 2:7 He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Pro 2:8 Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.

Pro 2:9 Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course.

Pro 2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

Pro 2:11 Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,

Pro 2:12 To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;

Pro 2:13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

Pro 2:14 Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

Pro 2:15 Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

Pro 2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

Pro 2:17 That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;

Pro 2:18 For her house sinks down to death And her tracks lead to the dead;

Pro 2:19 None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

Pro 2:20 So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous.

Pro 2:21 For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it;

Pro 2:22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

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Pro 3:1 My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my commandments;

Pro 3:2 For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you.

Pro 3:3 Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Pro 3:4 So you will find favor and good repute In the sight of God and man.

Pro 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.

Pro 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.

Pro 3:7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

Pro 3:8 It will be healing to your body And refreshment to your bones.

Pro 3:9 Honor the Lord from your wealth And from the first of all your produce;

Pro 3:10 So your barns will be filled with plenty And your vats will overflow with new wine.

Pro 3:11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord Or loathe His reproof,

Pro 3:12 For whom the Lord loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Pro 3:13 How blessed is the man who finds wisdom And the man who gains understanding.

Pro 3:14 For her profit is better than the profit of silver And her gain better than fine gold.

Pro 3:15 She is more precious than jewels; And nothing you desire compares with her.

Pro 3:16 Long life is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.

Pro 3:17 Her ways are pleasant ways And all her paths are peace.

Pro 3:18 She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who hold her fast.

Pro 3:19 The Lord by wisdom founded the earth, By understanding He established the heavens.

Pro 3:20 By His knowledge the deeps were broken up And the skies drip with dew.

Pro 3:21 My son, let them not vanish from your sight; Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

Pro 3:22 So they will be life to your soul And adornment to your neck.

Pro 3:23 Then you will walk in your way securely And your foot will not stumble.

Pro 3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

Pro 3:25 Do not be afraid of sudden fear Nor of the onslaught of the wicked when it comes;

Pro 3:26 For the Lord will be your confidence And will keep your foot from being caught.

Pro 3:27 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in your power to do it.

Pro 3:28 Do not say to your neighbor," Go, and come back, And tomorrow I will give it," When you have it with you.

Pro 3:29 Do not devise harm against your neighbor, While he lives securely beside you.

Pro 3:30 Do not contend with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.

Pro 3:31 Do not envy a man of violence And do not choose any of his ways.

Pro 3:32 For the devious are an abomination to the Lord; But He is intimate with the upright.

Pro 3:33 The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked, But He blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

Pro 3:34 Though He scoffs at the scoffers, Yet He gives grace to the afflicted.

Pro 3:35 The wise will inherit honor, But fools display dishonor.