Proverbs 1:3-32

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;

¹²swallow we him, as hell swallow-eth a man living; and all-whole, as going down into a pit;

¹³we shall find all precious chattel or substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils;

¹⁴put thou lot with us, one purse be there of us all;

¹⁵my son, go thou not with them; forbid thy foot from the paths of them.

¹⁶For the feet of them run to evil; and they hasten to shed out blood.

¹⁷But a net is laid in vain before the eyes of birds, that have wings.

¹⁸Also they set ambush against their own blood; and make ready frauds, or guiles, against their own souls.

¹⁹So the paths of each avaricious man ravish, or take away, the souls of them that wield.

²⁰Wisdom preacheth withoutforth; in streets it giveth his voice.

²¹It crieth oft in the head of companies; in the leaves of the gates of the city it bringeth forth his words, and saith,

²²How long, little men in wit, love young childhood, and fools shall covet those things, that be harmful to themselves, and unprudent men shall hate knowing?

²³Be ye converted at my reproving; lo, I shall bring forth to you my spirit, and I shall show my words.

²⁴For I called, and ye forsook; I held forth mine hand, and none there was that beheld.

²⁵Ye have despised all my counsel; and charged not my blamings.

²⁶And I shall laugh in your perishing; and I shall scorn you, when that, that ye dread, cometh to you.

²⁷When sudden wretchedness falleth in, and perishing befalleth as tempest; when tribulation and anguish cometh on you.

²⁸Then they shall call me, and I shall not hear; they shall rise early, and they shall not find me.

²⁹For they hated teaching, and they took not the dread of the Lord,

³⁰neither they assented to my counsel, and they depraved all mine amending.

³¹Therefore they shall eat the fruits of their way; and they shall be filled with their counsels.

³²The turning away of little men in wit shall slay them; and the prosperity of fools shall lose them.