Proverbs 1:1-12 ▼

1 Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel;

2 To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment, and uprightness;

4 To give craftiness to the simple, and to the youth, knowledge and meditation.

5 The wise one will hear and he will add learning: and he understanding, shall obtain guidance:

6 To understand a proverb, and an enigma: the words of the wise and their parables.

7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.

8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

9 For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat.

10 My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.

11 If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;

12 We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit: