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<a href="../esther/1.htm">Esther 1:1-9</a>; <a href="../proverbs/9.htm">Proverbs 9:1-12</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For giving to simple ones — prudence, To a youth — knowledge and discretion.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!</p> <p class="hdg">The Enticement of Sin</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If they say, ‘Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>We swallow them as Sheol — alive, And whole — as those going down [to] the pit,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is — to all of us.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.</p> <p class="hdg">Wisdom Calls Aloud</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>‘Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!’</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/150.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 150"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 150" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../proverbs/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Proverbs 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Proverbs 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/proverbs/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>