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1The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:[#1 Kings 4.32; Eccl 12.9]
2For learning about wisdom and instruction,
for understanding words of insight,
3for gaining instruction in wise dealing,[#Prov 2.9; 19.20]
righteousness, justice, and equity;
4to teach shrewdness to the simple,[#Prov 2.10, 11; 8.5, 12]
knowledge and prudence to the young—
5let the wise, too, hear and gain in learning[#Prov 9.9; 14.6]
and the discerning acquire skill,
6to understand a proverb and a figure,
the words of the wise and their riddles.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;[#Job 28.28; Ps 111.10; Eccl 12.13]
fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8Hear, my child, your father’s instruction,[#Prov 4.1; 6.20]
and do not reject your mother’s teaching,
9for they are a fair garland for your head[#Gen 41.42; Prov 4.9]
and pendants for your neck.
10My child, if sinners entice you,[#Deut 13.8; Eph 5.11]
do not consent.
11If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;[#v 18 ; Prov 12.6]
let us wantonly ambush the innocent;
12like Sheol let us swallow them alive[#Ps 28.1; 124.3]
and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.
13We shall find all kinds of costly things;
we shall fill our houses with spoil.
14Throw in your lot among us;
we will all have one purse”—
15my child, do not walk in their way;[#Ps 1.1; 119.101]
keep your foot from their paths,
16for their feet run to evil,[#Isa 59.7]
and they hurry to shed blood.
17For in vain is the net baited
while the bird is looking on;
18yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves!
and set an ambush—for their own lives!
19Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain;[#Prov 15.27; #1.19 Gk: Heb are the ways]
it takes away the life of its possessors.
20Wisdom cries out in the street;[#Prov 8.1]
in the squares she raises her voice.
21At the busiest corner she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
22“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?[#vv 4, 29, 32; Ps 1.1]
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?
23Give heed to my reproof;[#Joel 2.28]
I will pour out my thoughts to you;
I will make my words known to you.
24Because I have called and you refused,[#Isa 65.12; Zech 7.11; Rom 10.21]
have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,
25and because you have ignored all my counsel[#Ps 107.11; Prov 15.10; Lk 7.30]
and would have none of my reproof,
26I also will laugh at your calamity;[#Ps 2.4; Prov 6.15; 10.24]
I will mock when panic strikes you,
27when panic strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
28Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;[#Isa 1.15; Ezek 8.18; Mic 3.4; Zech 7.13]
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
29Because they hated knowledge
and did not choose the fear of the Lord ,
30would have none of my counsel[#Ps 81.11]
and despised all my reproof,
31therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way[#Job 4.8; Prov 14.14; Isa 3.11; Jer 6.19]
and be sated with their own devices.
32For waywardness kills the simple,[#Jer 2.19]
and the complacency of fools destroys them;
33but those who listen to me will be secure[#Ps 25.12]
and will live at ease without dread of disaster.”