Proverbs 1 (KJV)
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
In Other Versions
Proverbs 1 in the ANGEFD
Proverbs 1 in the ANTPNG2D
Proverbs 1 in the AS21
Proverbs 1 in the BAGH
Proverbs 1 in the BBPNG
Proverbs 1 in the BBT1E
Proverbs 1 in the BDS
Proverbs 1 in the BEV
Proverbs 1 in the BHAD
Proverbs 1 in the BIB
Proverbs 1 in the BLPT
Proverbs 1 in the BNT
Proverbs 1 in the BNTABOOT
Proverbs 1 in the BNTLV
Proverbs 1 in the BOATCB
Proverbs 1 in the BOATCB2
Proverbs 1 in the BOBCV
Proverbs 1 in the BOCNT
Proverbs 1 in the BOECS
Proverbs 1 in the BOGWICC
Proverbs 1 in the BOHCB
Proverbs 1 in the BOHCV
Proverbs 1 in the BOHLNT
Proverbs 1 in the BOHNTLTAL
Proverbs 1 in the BOICB
Proverbs 1 in the BOILNTAP
Proverbs 1 in the BOITCV
Proverbs 1 in the BOKCV
Proverbs 1 in the BOKCV2
Proverbs 1 in the BOKHWOG
Proverbs 1 in the BOKSSV
Proverbs 1 in the BOLCB
Proverbs 1 in the BOLCB2
Proverbs 1 in the BOMCV
Proverbs 1 in the BONAV
Proverbs 1 in the BONCB
Proverbs 1 in the BONLT
Proverbs 1 in the BONUT2
Proverbs 1 in the BOPLNT
Proverbs 1 in the BOSCB
Proverbs 1 in the BOSNC
Proverbs 1 in the BOTLNT
Proverbs 1 in the BOVCB
Proverbs 1 in the BOYCB
Proverbs 1 in the BPBB
Proverbs 1 in the BPH
Proverbs 1 in the BSB
Proverbs 1 in the CCB
Proverbs 1 in the CUV
Proverbs 1 in the CUVS
Proverbs 1 in the DBT
Proverbs 1 in the DGDNT
Proverbs 1 in the DHNT
Proverbs 1 in the DNT
Proverbs 1 in the ELBE
Proverbs 1 in the EMTV
Proverbs 1 in the ESV
Proverbs 1 in the FBV
Proverbs 1 in the FEB
Proverbs 1 in the GGMNT
Proverbs 1 in the GNT
Proverbs 1 in the HARY
Proverbs 1 in the HNT
Proverbs 1 in the IRVA
Proverbs 1 in the IRVB
Proverbs 1 in the IRVG
Proverbs 1 in the IRVH
Proverbs 1 in the IRVK
Proverbs 1 in the IRVM
Proverbs 1 in the IRVM2
Proverbs 1 in the IRVO
Proverbs 1 in the IRVP
Proverbs 1 in the IRVT
Proverbs 1 in the IRVT2
Proverbs 1 in the IRVU
Proverbs 1 in the ISVN
Proverbs 1 in the JSNT
Proverbs 1 in the KAPI
Proverbs 1 in the KBT1ETNIK
Proverbs 1 in the KBV
Proverbs 1 in the KNFD
Proverbs 1 in the LBA
Proverbs 1 in the LBLA
Proverbs 1 in the LNT
Proverbs 1 in the LSV
Proverbs 1 in the MAAL
Proverbs 1 in the MBV
Proverbs 1 in the MBV2
Proverbs 1 in the MHNT
Proverbs 1 in the MKNFD
Proverbs 1 in the MNG
Proverbs 1 in the MNT
Proverbs 1 in the MNT2
Proverbs 1 in the MRS1T
Proverbs 1 in the NAA
Proverbs 1 in the NASB
Proverbs 1 in the NBLA
Proverbs 1 in the NBS
Proverbs 1 in the NBVTP
Proverbs 1 in the NET2
Proverbs 1 in the NIV11
Proverbs 1 in the NNT
Proverbs 1 in the NNT2
Proverbs 1 in the NNT3
Proverbs 1 in the PDDPT
Proverbs 1 in the PFNT
Proverbs 1 in the RMNT
Proverbs 1 in the SBIAS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIBS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIBS2
Proverbs 1 in the SBICS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIDS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIGS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIHS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIIS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIIS2
Proverbs 1 in the SBIIS3
Proverbs 1 in the SBIKS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIKS2
Proverbs 1 in the SBIMS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIOS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIPS
Proverbs 1 in the SBISS
Proverbs 1 in the SBITS
Proverbs 1 in the SBITS2
Proverbs 1 in the SBITS3
Proverbs 1 in the SBITS4
Proverbs 1 in the SBIUS
Proverbs 1 in the SBIVS
Proverbs 1 in the SBT
Proverbs 1 in the SBT1E
Proverbs 1 in the SCHL
Proverbs 1 in the SNT
Proverbs 1 in the SUSU
Proverbs 1 in the SUSU2
Proverbs 1 in the SYNO
Proverbs 1 in the TBIAOTANT
Proverbs 1 in the TBT1E
Proverbs 1 in the TBT1E2
Proverbs 1 in the TFTIP
Proverbs 1 in the TFTU
Proverbs 1 in the TGNTATF3T
Proverbs 1 in the THAI
Proverbs 1 in the TNFD
Proverbs 1 in the TNT
Proverbs 1 in the TNTIK
Proverbs 1 in the TNTIL
Proverbs 1 in the TNTIN
Proverbs 1 in the TNTIP
Proverbs 1 in the TNTIZ
Proverbs 1 in the TOMA
Proverbs 1 in the TTENT
Proverbs 1 in the UBG
Proverbs 1 in the UGV
Proverbs 1 in the UGV2
Proverbs 1 in the UGV3
Proverbs 1 in the VBL
Proverbs 1 in the VDCC
Proverbs 1 in the YALU
Proverbs 1 in the YAPE
Proverbs 1 in the YBVTP
Proverbs 1 in the ZBP
