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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; `But' the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData I also will laugh in `the day of' your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah: |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil. |
