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- The Prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, King of Israel,
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- To knowe wisedome and instruction, to perceiue the words of vnderstanding,
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- To receiue the instruction of wisdome, iustice, and iudgement & equitie,
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- To giue subtiltie to the simple, to the yong man knowledge and discretion.
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- A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:
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- To vnderstand a prouerbe, and the interpretation;
the wordes of the wise, and their darke sayings.
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- The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
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- My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
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- For they shall be an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke.
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- My sonne, if sinners entise thee, consent thou not.
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- If they say, Come with vs, let vs lay wait for blood, let vs lurke priuily for the innocent without cause:
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- Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
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- Wee shall finde all precious substance, wee shall fill our houses with spoile:
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- Cast in thy lot among vs, let vs all haue one purse:
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- My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them;
refraine thy foot from their path:
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- For their feete runne to euil, and make haste to shed blood.
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- Surely in vaine the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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- And they lay wait for their owne blood, they lurke priuily for their owne liues.
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- So are the waies of euery one that is greedie of gaine: which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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- Wisedome crieth without, she vttereth her voice in the streets:
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- Shee crieth in the chiefe place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she vttereth her words, saying,
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- How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie?
And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge?
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- Turne you at my reproofe: behold, I will powre out my spirit vnto you, I will make knowen my wordes vnto you.
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- Because I haue called, and yee refused, I haue stretched out my hand, and no man regarded:
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- But ye haue set at nought all my counsell, & would none of my reproofe:
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- I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth.
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- When your feare commeth as desolation, and your destruction commeth as a whirlewinde;
when distresse and anguish commeth vpon you:
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- Then shall they call vpon mee, but I will not answere;
they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:
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- For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lord.
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- They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproofe.
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- Therefore shall they eate of the fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuices.
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- For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fooles shall destroy them.
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- But who so hearkneth vnto mee, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from feare of euill.
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