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Proverbs 1 (New International Version)

Proverbs 1

Prologue: Purpose and Theme
1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:

2 for attaining
wisdom and discipline;
for
understanding words of insight;

3 for acquiring a
disciplined and prudent life,
doing
what is right and just and fair;

4 for giving
prudence to the simple,
knowledge and
discretion to the young-

5 let the wise
listen and add to their learning,
and
let the discerning get guidance-

6 for understanding
proverbs and parables,
the sayings and
riddles of the wise.

7 The fear of the
LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but
fools despise
wisdom and discipline.

Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom

Warning Against Enticement
8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction

and do not forsake your mother's
teaching.

9 They will be a
garland to grace your head
and a chain
to adorn your neck.

10 My son, if
sinners entice you,
do not give in to
them.

11 If they say,
"Come along with us;
let's lie in wait
for someone's blood,
let's waylay some
harmless soul;

12 let's swallow
them alive, like the grave,

and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

13 we will get all
sorts of valuable things
and fill our
houses with plunder;

14 throw in your
lot with us,
and we will share a common
purse"-

15 my son, do not
go along with them,
do not set foot on
their paths;

16 for their feet
rush into sin,
they are swift to shed
blood.

17 How useless to
spread a net
in full view of all the
birds!

18 These men lie
in wait for their own blood;
they
waylay only themselves!

19 Such is the end
of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
it
takes away the lives of those who get it.

Warning Against Rejecting Wisdom
20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street,

she raises her voice in the public
squares;

21 at the head of
the noisy streets she cries
out,
in the gateways of the city she
makes her speech:

22 "How long will
you simple ones love your
simple ways?
How long will mockers
delight in mockery
and fools hate
knowledge?

23 If you had
responded to my rebuke,
I would have
poured out my heart to you
and made my
thoughts known to you.

24 But since you
rejected me when I called
and no one
gave heed when I stretched out my hand,

25 since you
ignored all my advice
and would not
accept my rebuke,

26 I in turn will
laugh at your disaster;
I will mock
when calamity overtakes you-

27 when calamity
overtakes you like a storm,
when
disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,

when distress and trouble overwhelm
you.

28 "Then they will
call to me but I will not answer;
they
will look for me but will not find me.

29 Since they
hated knowledge
and did not choose to
fear the LORD,

30 since they
would not accept my advice
and spurned
my rebuke,

31 they will eat
the fruit of their ways
and be filled
with the fruit of their schemes.

32 For the
waywardness of the simple will kill them,

and the complacency of fools will
destroy them;

33 but whoever
listens to me will live in safety
and
be at ease, without fear of harm."

Footnotes:

Proverbs
1:7 The Hebrew words rendered fool in Proverbs, and often elsewhere
in the Old Testament, denote one who is morally deficient.

Proverbs
1:12 Hebrew Sheol

Proverbs
1:21 Hebrew; Septuagint / on the tops of the walls

Proverbs
1:22 The Hebrew word rendered simple in Proverbs generally denotes
one without moral direction and inclined to evil.

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