Proverbs 1
Authorized King James Version (1769) with AI Commentary
1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;🔗🔍
2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;🔗🔍
3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;🔗🔍
4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.🔗🔍
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:🔗🔍
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.🔗🔍
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.🔗🔍
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:🔗🔍
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.🔗🔍
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.🔗🔍
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:🔗🔍
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:🔗🔍
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:🔗🔍
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:🔗🔍
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:🔗🔍
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.🔗🔍
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.🔗🔍
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.🔗🔍
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.🔗🔍
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:🔗🔍
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,🔗🔍
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?🔗🔍
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.🔗🔍
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;🔗🔍
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:🔗🔍
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;🔗🔍
27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.🔗🔍
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:🔗🔍
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:🔗🔍
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.🔗🔍
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.🔗🔍
32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.🔗🔍
33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.🔗🔍
2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;🔗🔍
3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;🔗🔍
4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.🔗🔍
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:🔗🔍
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.🔗🔍
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.🔗🔍
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:🔗🔍
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.🔗🔍
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.🔗🔍
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:🔗🔍
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:🔗🔍
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:🔗🔍
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:🔗🔍
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:🔗🔍
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.🔗🔍
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.🔗🔍
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.🔗🔍
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.🔗🔍
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:🔗🔍
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,🔗🔍
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?🔗🔍
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.🔗🔍
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;🔗🔍
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:🔗🔍
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;🔗🔍
27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.🔗🔍
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:🔗🔍
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:🔗🔍
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.🔗🔍
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.🔗🔍
32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.🔗🔍
33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.🔗🔍
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