Proverbs 1:1-11

¹The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;

²to know wisdom and knowing; to understand the words of prudence;

³and to take the learning of teach-ing; to take rightfulness or rightwise-ness, and doom, and equity;

⁴that fellness, or wariness, be given to little children, and knowing and understanding to a young waxing man.

⁵A wise man hearing shall be the wiser; and a man understanding shall hold governance.

⁶He shall perceive a parable, and the expounding; the words of wise men, and the dark figurative speeches of them.

⁷The dread of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; fools despise wisdom and teaching.

⁸My son, hear thou the teaching of thy father, and forsake thou not the law of thy mother;

⁹that grace be added, either increased, to thine head, and a bie to thy neck.

¹⁰My son, if sinners flatter thee, assent thou not to them.

¹¹If they say, Come thou with us, set we ambush to shed blood, hide we snares of deceits against an innocent without cause;