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Proverbs

1. 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2. 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3. 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4. 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5. 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
6. 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
7. 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
8. 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
9. 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
10. 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
11. 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
12. 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
13. 1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
14. 1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
15. 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
16. 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
17. 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
18. 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
19. 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
20. 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
21. 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
22. 2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
23. 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
24. 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
25. 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
26. 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
27. 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
28. 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
29. 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
30. 2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
31. 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
32. 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
33. 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
34. 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
35. 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
36. 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
37. 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
38. 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
39. 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
40. 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
41. 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
42. 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
43. 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
44. 3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
45. 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
46. 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
47. 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
48. 3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
49. 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
50. 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.