Proverbs 1:1-13

¹The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

²To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:

³To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

⁴To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:

⁵(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

⁶To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

⁷The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

⁸My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

⁹For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

¹⁰My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

¹¹If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

¹²Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

¹³Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;