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Proverbs

1. 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
2. 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
3. 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
4. 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
5. 2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
6. 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
7. 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
8. 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
9. 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
10. 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
11. 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
12. 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
13. 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
14. 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
15. 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
16. 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17. 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
18. 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
19. 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
20. 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
21. 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
22. 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
23. 6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
24. 6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
25. 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
26. 7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
27. 7:12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
28. 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
29. 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
30. 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
31. 8:4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
32. 8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
33. 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
34. 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
35. 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
36. 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
37. 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
38. 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
39. 9:4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
40. 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
41. 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
42. 9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
43. 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
44. 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
45. 10:5 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
46. 10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
47. 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
48. 10:13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
49. 10:14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
50. 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.