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PROVERBS
- I will make known my words unto you.
- 24Because I have called, and ye refused,
- I have stretched out my hand, and no man attended,
- 25But ye have set at nought all my counsel,
- And would none of my reproof;
- 26I also, in your calamity, will laugh,
- I will mock when your dread cometh;
- 27When your dread cometh as a storm,
- And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind;
- When trouble and distress come upon you.
- 28Then will they call me, but I will not answer,
- They will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me.
- 29For that they hated knowledge,
- And did not choose the fear of the Lord;
- 30They would none of my counsel,
- They despised all my reproof.
- 31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
- And be filled with their own devices.
- 32For the waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them,
- And the confidence of fools shall destroy them.
- 33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely,
- And shall be quiet without fear of evil.'
- 2My son, if thou wilt receive my words,
- And lay up my commandments with thee;
- 2So that thou make thine ear attend unto wisdom,
- And thy heart incline to discernment;
- 3Yea, if thou call for understanding,
- And lift up thy voice for discernment;
- 4If thou seek her as silver,
- And search for her as for hid treasures;
- 5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord,
- And find the knowledge of God.
- 6For the Lord giveth wisdom,
- Out of His mouth cometh knowledge and discernment;
- 7He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright,
- He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
- 8That He may guard the paths of justice,
- And preserve the way of His godly ones.
- 9Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice,
- And equity, yea, every good path.
- 10For wisdom shall enter into thy heart,
- And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
- 11Discretion shall watch over thee,
- Discernment shall guard thee;
- 12To deliver thee from the way of evil,
- From the men that speak froward things;
- 13Who leave the paths of uprightness,
- To walk in the ways of darkness;
- 14Who rejoice to do evil,
- And delight in the frowardness of evil;
- 15Who are crooked in their ways,
- And perverse in their paths;
- 16To deliver thee from the strange woman,
- Even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words;
- 17That forsaketh the lord of her youth,
- And forgetteth the covenant of her God.
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