Douay Bible - Proverbs Chapter 1

Proverbs 1:1
The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

Proverbs 1:2
To know wisdom, and instruction:

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To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

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To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.

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A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.

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He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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

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That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.

Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

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If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

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Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

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We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Proverbs 1:14
Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.

Proverbs 1:15
My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.

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

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But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

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And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.

Proverbs 1:19
So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:

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At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:

Proverbs 1:22
O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?

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Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

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Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.

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You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

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I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

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When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:

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Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:

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Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,

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Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

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

Proverbs 1:32
The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 1:33
But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.