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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/150.htm" title="Psalm 150">◄</a> Proverbs 1 <a href="../proverbs/2.htm" title="Proverbs 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch24001" class="chapter"> <h1 class="bksect">I. <span class="ac">Title and Introduction</span></h1> <h1 id="cn24001" class="cn"></h1> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">Purpose of the Proverbs of Solomon<a id="rfn24001000-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001000-1">*</a></h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v24001001" class="ver">1</span>The proverbs<a id="rfn24001001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001001-1">*</a> of Solomon,<a id="ren24001001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24001001-a">a</a> the son of David,</p> <p class="sl1">king of Israel:</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001002" class="ver">2</span>That people may know wisdom and discipline,<a id="rfn24001002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001002-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">may understand intelligent sayings;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001003" class="ver">3</span>May receive instruction in wise conduct,</p> <p class="sl1">in what is right, just and fair;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001004" class="ver">4</span>That resourcefulness may be imparted to the naive,<a id="rfn24001004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001004-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">knowledge and discretion to the young.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001005" class="ver">5</span>The wise by hearing them will advance in learning,</p> <p class="sl1">the intelligent will gain sound guidance,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001006" class="ver">6</span>To comprehend proverb and byword,</p> <p class="sl1">the words of the wise and their riddles.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001007" class="ver">7</span>Fear of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span><a id="rfn24001007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001007-1">*</a> is the beginning of knowledge;<a id="ren24001007-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24001007-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">fools despise wisdom and discipline.</p> </div> <h1 class="bksect">II. <span class="ac">Instructions of Parents and of Woman Wisdom</span></h1> </section> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">The Path of the Wicked: Greed and Violence<a id="rfn24001008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001008-1">*</a></h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v24001008" class="ver">8</span>Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,</p> <p class="sl1">and reject not your mother’s teaching;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001009" class="ver">9</span>A graceful diadem will they be for your head;</p> <p class="sl1">a pendant for your neck.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001010" class="ver">10</span>My son, should sinners entice you,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v24001011" class="ver">11</span>do not go if they say, “Come along with us!</p> <p class="sl">Let us lie in wait for blood,</p> <p class="sl1">unprovoked, let us trap the innocent;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001012" class="ver">12</span>Let us swallow them alive, like Sheol,</p> <p class="sl1">whole, like those who go down to the pit!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001013" class="ver">13</span>All kinds of precious wealth shall we gain,</p> <p class="sl1">we shall fill our houses with booty;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001014" class="ver">14</span>Cast in your lot with us,</p> <p class="sl1">we shall all have one purse!”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001015" class="ver">15</span>My son, do not walk in the way with them,</p> <p class="sl1">hold back your foot from their path!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001016" class="ver">16</span>[For their feet run to evil,</p> <p class="sl1">they hasten to shed blood.<a id="ren24001016-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24001016-c">c</a>]</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001017" class="ver">17</span>In vain a net is spread<a id="rfn24001017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001017-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">right under the eyes of any bird—</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001018" class="ver">18</span>They lie in wait for their own blood,</p> <p class="sl1">they set a trap for their own lives.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001019" class="ver">19</span>This is the way of everyone greedy for loot:</p> <p class="sl1">it takes away their lives.</p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">Wisdom in Person Gives a Warning<a id="rfn24001020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001020-1">*</a></h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v24001020" class="ver">20</span>Wisdom cries aloud in the street,</p> <p class="sl1">in the open squares she raises her voice;<a id="ren24001020-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24001020-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001021" class="ver">21</span>Down the crowded ways she calls out,</p> <p class="sl1">at the city gates she utters her words:</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001022" class="ver">22</span><a id="rfn24001022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001022-1">*</a> “How long, you naive ones, will you love naivete,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v24001023" class="ver">23</span>How long will you turn away at my reproof?</p> <p class="sl">[The arrogant delight in their arrogance,</p> <p class="sl1">and fools hate knowledge.]</p> <p class="sl1">Lo! I will pour out to you my spirit,</p> <p class="sl1">I will acquaint you with my words:</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001024" class="ver">24</span>‘Because I called and you refused,</p> <p class="sl1">extended my hand and no one took notice;<a id="ren24001024-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24001024-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001025" class="ver">25</span>Because you disdained all my counsel,</p> <p class="sl1">and my reproof you ignored—</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001026" class="ver">26</span>I, in my turn, will laugh at your doom;</p> <p class="sl1">will mock when terror overtakes you;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001027" class="ver">27</span>When terror comes upon you like a storm,</p> <p class="sl1">and your doom approaches like a whirlwind;</p> <p class="sl1">when distress and anguish befall you.’</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001028" class="ver">28</span>Then they will call me, but I will not answer;</p> <p class="sl1">they will seek me, but will not find me,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001029" class="ver">29</span>Because they hated knowledge,</p> <p class="sl1">and the fear of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> they did not choose.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001030" class="ver">30</span>They ignored my counsel,</p> <p class="sl1">they spurned all my reproof;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001031" class="ver">31</span>Well, then, they shall eat the fruit<a id="rfn24001031-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn24001031-1">*</a> of their own way,</p> <p class="sl1">and with their own devices be glutted.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001032" class="ver">32</span>For the straying of the naive kills them,</p> <p class="sl1">the smugness of fools destroys them.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v24001033" class="ver">33</span>But whoever obeys me dwells in security,</p> <p class="sl1">in peace, without fear of harm.”<a id="ren24001033-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en24001033-f">f</a></p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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