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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>To know wisdom and instruction;</div><div class="po2">To comprehend the words of understanding;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>To receive the discipline of wisdom,</div><div class="po2">Justice, and right, and equity;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>To give prudence to the simple,</div><div class="po2">To the young man knowledge and discretion;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning,</div><div class="po2">And the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>To understand a proverb, and a figure;</div><div class="po2">The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;</div><div class="po2">But the foolish despise wisdom and discipline.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father,</div><div class="po2">And forsake not the teaching of thy mother;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head,</div><div class="po2">And chains about thy neck.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My son, if sinners entice thee,</div><div class="po2">Consent thou not.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If they say: ‘Come with us,</div><div class="po2">Let us lie in wait for blood,</div><div class="po2">Let us lurk for the innocent without cause;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let us swallow them up alive as the grave,</div><div class="po2">And whole, as those that go down into the pit;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>We shall find all precious substance,</div><div class="po2">We shall fill our houses with spoil;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Cast in thy lot among us;</div><div class="po2">Let us all have one purse’—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My son, walk not thou in the way with them,</div><div class="po2">Restrain thy foot from their path;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For their feet run to evil,</div><div class="po2">And they make haste to shed blood.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For in vain the net is spread</div><div class="po2">In the eyes of any bird;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And these lie in wait for their own blood,</div><div class="po2">They lurk for their own lives.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;</div><div class="po2">It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Wisdom crieth aloud in the streets,</div><div class="po2">She uttereth her voice in the broad places;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>She calleth at the head of the noisy streets,</div><div class="po2">At the entrances of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>‘How long, ye thoughtless, will ye love thoughtlessness?</div><div class="po2">And how long will scorners delight them in scorning,</div><div class="po2">And fools hate knowledge?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Turn you at my reproof;</div><div class="po2">Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,</div><div class="po2">I will make known my words unto you.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Because I have called, and ye refused,</div><div class="po2">I have stretched out my hand, and no man attended,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But ye have set at nought all my counsel,</div><div class="po2">And would none of my reproof;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I also, in your calamity, will laugh,</div><div class="po2">I will mock when your dread cometh;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>When your dread cometh as a storm,</div><div class="po2">And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind;</div><div class="po2">When trouble and distress come upon you.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then will they call me, but I will not answer,</div><div class="po2">They will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For that they hated knowledge,</div><div class="po2">And did not choose the fear of the LORD;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>They would none of my counsel,</div><div class="po2">They despised all my reproof.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,</div><div class="po2">And be filled with their own devices.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For the waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them,</div><div class="po2">And the confidence of fools shall destroy them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/1-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely,</div><div class="po2">And shall be quiet without fear of evil.’</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<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"' 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