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1 The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,
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1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
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2 To know wisdom, and instruction:
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2 for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;
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3 To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
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3 for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair;
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4 To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
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4 for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young--
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5 A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.
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5 let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance--
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6 He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
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6 for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
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7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
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8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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9 That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
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9 They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
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10 My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
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10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
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11 If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
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11 If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul;
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12 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
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12 let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
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13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
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13 we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
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14 Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
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14 throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse"--
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15 My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
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15 my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
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16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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16 for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.
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17 But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
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17 How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
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18 And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
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18 These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!
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19 So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
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19 Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
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20 Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
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21 At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
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21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
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22 O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
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22 "How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
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23 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
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23 If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
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24 Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
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24 But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
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25 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
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25 since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
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26 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
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26 I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you--
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27 When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
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27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
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28 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:
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28 "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
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29 Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,
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29 Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD,
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30 Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
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30 since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
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31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
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31 they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
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32 The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
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33 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.
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33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
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