✧The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: ✧2To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; ✧3To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity; ✧4To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion: ✧5That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: ✧6To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings. ✧7The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. ✧8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: ✧9For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. ✧10My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. ✧11If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; ✧12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; ✧13We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; ✧14Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse: ✧15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: ✧16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. ✧17For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: ✧18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. ✧19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof. ✧20Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; ✧21She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words: ✧22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? ✧23Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you. ✧24Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded; ✧25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: ✧26I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; ✧27When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you. ✧28Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me: ✧29For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah, ✧30They would none of my counsel, They despised all my reproof. ✧31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. ✧32For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. ✧33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.