Proverbs

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: