Proverbs chapter 1

The proverbs of Solomon the/son of David, king of \Israel;

To know/wisdom and instruction; to perceive the \words of understanding;

To receive/the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and \equity;

To give/subtlety to the simple, to the young man \knowledge and discretion.

A wise man will/hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise \counsels:

To understand/a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their \dark sayings.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge:ut fools despise wisdom \and instruction.

My son, hear/the instruction of thy \father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

For they shalle an ornament of grace unto thy head, and \chains about thy neck.

Wisdom crieth/without; she uttereth her \voice in the streets:

She crieth in/the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, \saying,

How long, ye/simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools \hate knowledge?

Turn you/at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words nto you.

Because/I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man egarded;

But ye/have set at nought all my counsel, and would none \of my reproof:

I also/will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your \fear cometh;

When your/fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh pon you.

Then shall/they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall \not find me:

For that/they hated knowledge, and did not choose the \fear of the LORD:

They would/none of my counsel: they despised \all my reproof.

Therefore/shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own \devices.

For the turning/away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of \fools shall destroy them.

But whoso/hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear \of evil.