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1:1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, the king of Israel: Compare
1:2For knowing wisdom and instruction; / For discerning words of understanding; Compare
1:3For receiving instruction in wise conduct, / Righteousness, justice, and equity; Compare
1:4For giving prudence to the simple, / Knowledge and discretion to the young man; Compare
1:5That the wise man may hear and increase in learning, / And he who has understanding may acquire sound counsel; Compare
1:6For understanding proverb and figure, / The words of the wise and their difficult sayings. Compare
1:7The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; / Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Compare
1:8Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, / And do not reject the teaching of your mother; Compare
1:9For they will be a wreath of grace for your head / And ornaments for your neck. Compare
1:10My son, if sinners entice you, / Do not consent. Compare
1:11If they say, Come with us; let us lie in wait for blood; / Let us ambush the innocent without cause; Compare
1:12Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, / And whole, like those who go down into the pit. Compare
1:13We will find all manner of precious goods; / We will fill our houses with booty; Compare
1:14Throw in your lot with us; / We will all have one purse - Compare
1:15My son, do not walk with them on this way; / Keep your foot from their path. Compare
1:16For their feet run toward evil, / And they hasten to shed blood. Compare
1:17For in vain is the net spread / In the eyes of any bird; Compare
1:18Yet they lie in wait for their own blood; / They ambush their own lives! Compare
1:19Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; / It takes away the life of its owners. Compare
1:20Wisdom cries out in the street; / She utters her voice in the open squares. Compare
1:21At the head of the tumultuous street she cries; / At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings: Compare
1:22How long, O simple ones, will you love simpleness, / And will scoffers delight themselves in scoffing, / And will fools hate knowledge? Compare
1:23Turn yourselves at my reproof - / Immediately I will pour out my spirit on you; / I will make my words known to you. Compare
1:24Because I called and you refused; / I stretched out my hand and no one heeded, Compare
1:25And you neglected all my counsel / And would have none of my reproof; Compare
1:26I also will laugh at your calamity; / I will mock when what you dread comes, Compare
1:27When what you dread comes like a storm, / And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, / When distress and anguish come upon you. Compare
1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; / They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. Compare
1:29Because they hated knowledge / And did not choose the fear of Jehovah, Compare
1:30And would have none of my counsel / And despised all my reproof; Compare
1:31They shall eat of the fruit of their own way / And be filled with their own devices. Compare
1:32For the turning away of the simple will kill them, / And the prosperity of the foolish will cause them to perish; Compare
1:33But he who listens to me will dwell securely / And will live at ease, without the dread of evil. Compare
2:1My son, if you receive my words / And treasure up my commandments within you, Compare
2:2Making your ear attentive to wisdom / And inclining your heart to understanding; Compare
2:3Indeed, if you cry out for discernment / And lift up your voice for understanding; Compare
2:4If you seek her like silver / And search for her like hidden treasures, Compare
2:5Then you will understand the fear of Jehovah / And find the knowledge of God. Compare
2:6For Jehovah gives wisdom; / From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; Compare
2:7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; / He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, Compare
2:8Guarding the paths of justice / And keeping the way of His faithful ones. Compare
2:9Then you will understand righteousness and justice / And equity, indeed, every good path. Compare
2:10For wisdom will enter your heart, / And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; Compare
2:11Discretion will watch over you; / Understanding will keep you: Compare
2:12To deliver you from the way of evil, / From the man who speaks perverse things, Compare
2:13From those who forsake the paths of uprightness / To walk in the ways of darkness, Compare
2:14Who rejoice in doing evil / And delight in the perverseness of evil, Compare
2:15Whose paths are crooked, / And who are devious in their ways; Compare
2:16To deliver you from the strange woman, / From the adulteress who flatters with her words, Compare
2:17Who forsakes the companion of her youth / And forgets the covenant of her God; Compare
2:18For her house sinks down to death, / And her paths lead to the dead; Compare
2:19None who go to her ever return, / Nor do they attain to the paths of life; Compare
2:20That you may walk in the way of good men / And keep the paths of the righteous; Compare
2:21For the upright will dwell in the land, / And the perfect will remain in it; Compare
2:22But the wicked will be cut off from the land, / And the treacherous will be uprooted from it. Compare

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