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Proverbs 1:1 (BSB)
These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,

Proverbs 1:2 (BSB)
for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,

Proverbs 1:3 (BSB)
and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

Proverbs 1:4 (BSB)
To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

Proverbs 1:5 (BSB)
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel

Proverbs 1:6 (BSB)
by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

Proverbs 1:7 (BSB)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 1:8 (BSB)
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

Proverbs 1:9 (BSB)
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

Proverbs 1:10 (BSB)
My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

Proverbs 1:11 (BSB)
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Proverbs 1:12 (BSB)
let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Proverbs 1:13 (BSB)
We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

Proverbs 1:14 (BSB)
Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

Proverbs 1:15 (BSB)
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Proverbs 1:16 (BSB)
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:17 (BSB)
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

Proverbs 1:18 (BSB)
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 1:19 (BSB)
Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

Proverbs 1:20 (BSB)
Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

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in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

Proverbs 1:22 (BSB)
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:23 (BSB)
If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

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Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

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because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

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in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

Proverbs 1:27 (BSB)
when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

Proverbs 1:28 (BSB)
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

Proverbs 1:29 (BSB)
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Proverbs 1:30 (BSB)
They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

Proverbs 1:31 (BSB)
So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 1:32 (BSB)
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

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But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”

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