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

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

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

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^[4]  To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

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^[5]  A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:

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

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

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^[8]  My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:

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^[9]  For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck. ¶

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^[10]  My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.

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^[11]  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:

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

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

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^[14]  Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:

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^[15]  My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:

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

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

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^[18]  And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.

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^[19]  So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof. ¶

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^[20]  Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:

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^[21]  She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,

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

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^[23]  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you. ¶

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^[24]  Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

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^[25]  But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

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^[26]  I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

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^[27]  When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you.

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^[28]  Then shall they call on me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

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

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

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

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

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^[33]  But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

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