1The(These are the) proverbs of Solomon the son of David king of Israel:
2To learn wisdom, instruction,(nurture) understanding, prudence,
3righteousness, judgment and equity.
4That the very babes might have wit, and that young men might have knowledge and understanding.
5By hearing, the wise man shall come by more wisdom:
6and by experience he shall be more apt to understand a parable, and the interpretation thereof, the words of the wise, and the dark speeches of the same.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.(nurture)
8My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck.
10My son, consent not unto sinners,
11if they entice thee, and say: Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:
12Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.
13So shall we find all manner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoils.
14Cast in thy lot among us, we shall have all one purse.
15My son, walk not thou with them, refrain thy foot from their ways.
16For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood.
17But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes.
18Yea they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.
19These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.
20Wisdom crieth without and putteth forth her(hir) voice in the streets.
21She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and sheweth her words throw the city, saying:
22O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? how long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge?
23O turn you unto my correction: lo, I will express my mind unto you, and make you understand my words.
24Seeing then that I have called, and ye refused it: I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded it,
25but all my counsels have ye despised and set my corrections to naught.
26Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you:
27even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29And that because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the LORD,
30but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction.
31Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels:
32for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.
33But who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and have enough without any fear of evil.