1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; WBS — Proverbs 1:1
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; WBS — Proverbs 1:2
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; WBS — Proverbs 1:3
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. WBS — Proverbs 1:4
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels: WBS — Proverbs 1:5
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. WBS — Proverbs 1:6
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. WBS — Proverbs 1:7
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: WBS — Proverbs 1:8
9 For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck. WBS — Proverbs 1:9
10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. WBS — Proverbs 1:10
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: WBS — Proverbs 1:11
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: WBS — Proverbs 1:12
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: WBS — Proverbs 1:13
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: WBS — Proverbs 1:14
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: WBS — Proverbs 1:15
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. WBS — Proverbs 1:16
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. WBS — Proverbs 1:17
18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. WBS — Proverbs 1:18
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners. WBS — Proverbs 1:19
20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: WBS — Proverbs 1:20
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, WBS — Proverbs 1:21
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? WBS — Proverbs 1:22
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words. WBS — Proverbs 1:23
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; WBS — Proverbs 1:24
25 But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and rejected my reproof: WBS — Proverbs 1:25
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; WBS — Proverbs 1:26
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. WBS — Proverbs 1:27
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: WBS — Proverbs 1:28
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: WBS — Proverbs 1:29
30 They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof. WBS — Proverbs 1:30
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. WBS — Proverbs 1:31
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. WBS — Proverbs 1:32
33 But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. WBS — Proverbs 1:33