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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Proverbs 1 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/proverbs/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" 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href="/proverbs/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For knowing wisdom and instruction, "" For understanding sayings of intelligence,<p> <A name="4"></a><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> <A name="5"></a><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> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>(The wise hear and increase learning, "" And the intelligent obtain counsels.)<p> <A name="7"></a><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> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, "" Fools have despised wisdom and instruction!<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, "" And do not leave the law of your mother,<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For they [are] a graceful wreath to your head, "" And chains to your neck.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My son, if sinners entice you, do not be willing.<p> <A name="12"></a><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> <A name="13"></a><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> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>We find every precious substance, "" We fill our houses [with] spoil,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You cast your lot among us, "" One purse is—to all of us.”<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My son! Do not go in the way with them, "" Withhold your foot from their path,<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For their feet run to evil, "" And they hurry to shed blood.<p> <A name="18"></a><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> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And they lay wait for their own blood, "" They watch secretly for their own lives.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, "" It takes the life of its owners.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wisdom cries aloud in an out-place, "" She gives forth her voice in broad places,<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>She calls at the head of the multitudes, "" In the openings of the gates, "" In the city she says her sayings:<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do fools hate knowledge?<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Turn back at my reproof, behold, "" I pour forth my spirit to you, "" I make known my words with you.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Because I have called, and you refuse, "" I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And you slight all my counsel, "" And you have not desired my reproof.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I also laugh in your calamity, "" I deride when your fear comes,<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When your fear comes as destruction, "" And your calamity comes as a windstorm, "" When adversity and distress come on you.<p> <A name="29"></a><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 do not find me.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Because that they have hated knowledge, "" And have not chosen the fear of YHWH.<p> <A name="31"></a><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> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And they eat of the fruit of their way, "" And they are filled from their own counsels.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For the turning of the simple slays them, "" And the security of the foolish destroys them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And whoever is listening to me dwells confidently, "" And [is] quiet from fear of evil!”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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