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Proverbs 1

The Message Bible MSG

1 These are the wise sayings of Solomon, David's son, Israel's king -

2 Written down so we'll know how to live well and right, to understand what life means and where it's going;

3 A manual for living, for learning what's right and just and fair;

4 To teach the inexperienced the ropes and give our young people a grasp on reality.

5 There's something here also for seasoned men and women,

6 still a thing or two for the experienced to learn - Fresh wisdom to probe and penetrate, the rhymes and reasons of wise men and women. Start with God

7 Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

8 Pay close attention, friend, to what your father tells you; never forget what you learned at your mother's knee.

9 Wear their counsel like flowers in your hair, like rings on your fingers.

10 Dear friend, if bad companions tempt you, don't go along with them.

11 If they say - "Let's go out and raise some hell. Let's beat up some old man, mug some old woman.

12 Let's pick them clean and get them ready for their funerals.

13 We'll load up on top-quality loot. We'll haul it home by the truckload.

14 Join us for the time of your life! With us, it's share and share alike!" -

15 Oh, friend, don't give them a second look; don't listen to them for a minute.

16 They're racing to a very bad end, hurrying to ruin everything they lay hands on.

17 Nobody robs a bank with everyone watching,

18 Yet that's what these people are doing - they're doing themselves in.

19 When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are. Lady Wisdom

20 Lady Wisdom goes out in the street and shouts. At the town center she makes her speech.

21 In the middle of the traffic she takes her stand. At the busiest corner she calls out:

22 "Simpletons! How long will you wallow in ignorance? Cynics! How long will you feed your cynicism? Idiots! How long will you refuse to learn?

23 About face! I can revise your life. Look, I'm ready to pour out my spirit on you; I'm ready to tell you all I know.

24 As it is, I've called, but you've turned a deaf ear; I've reached out to you, but you've ignored me.

25 "Since you laugh at my counsel and make a joke of my advice,

26 How can I take you seriously? I'll turn the tables and joke about your troubles!

27 What if the roof falls in, and your whole life goes to pieces? What if catastrophe strikes and there's nothing to show for your life but rubble and ashes?

28 You'll need me then. You'll call for me, but don't expect an answer. No matter how hard you look, you won't find me.

29 "Because you hated Knowledge and had nothing to do with the Fear-of-God,

30 Because you wouldn't take my advice and brushed aside all my offers to train you,

31 Well, you've made your bed - now lie in it; you wanted your own way - now, how do you like it?

32 Don't you see what happens, you simpletons, you idiots? Carelessness kills; complacency is murder.

33 First pay attention to me, and then relax. Now you can take it easy - you're in good hands."

King James Version KJV

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.