Proverbs 1 Interlinear

to know wisdom and instruction to perceive the words of understanding

to receive the instruction of wisdom justice and judgment and equity

to give subtilty to the simple to the young man knowledge and discretion

a wise man will hear and will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels

to understand a proverb and the interpretation the words of the wise and their dark sayings

the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction

my son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother

for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head and chains about thy neck

my son if sinners entice thee consent

if they say come with us let us lay wait for blood let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause

let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pit

we shall find all precious substance we shall fill our houses with spoil

cast in thy lot among us let us all have one purse

my son walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their path

for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood

surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird

and they lay wait for their own blood they lurk privily for their own lives

so are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which taketh away the life of the owners

wisdom crieth without she uttereth her voice in the streets

she crieth in the chief place of concourse in the openings of the gates in the city she uttereth her words

how long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge

turn you at my reproof behold i will pour out my spirit unto you i will make known my words

because i have called and ye refused i have stretched out my hand and no man regarded

but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof

i also will laugh at your calamity i will mock when your fear cometh

when your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh

then shall they call upon me but i will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find

for that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the lord

they would none of my counsel they despised all my reproof

therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices

for the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy

but whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil