Pro Proverbs, chapter Proverbs of Solomon, chapter 1
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 1Ki 4:32To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;1.3 equity: Heb. equities To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.1.4 discretion: or, advisement A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: Sir 10:28To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.1.6 the interpretation: or, an eloquent speech
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.1.7 the beginning: or, the principal part Job 28:28; Psa 111:10; Ecc 12:13; Sir 1:15My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.1.9 an…: Heb. an addingPro 4:9; Sir 6:32
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Pro 4:14If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Jer 5:26; Mic 7:2Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: Psa 124:3We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: Psa 1:1For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Isa 59:7; Rom 3:15Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.1.17 in the…: Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. Mat 26:16So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:1.20 Wisdom: Heb. Wisdoms, that is, Excellent wisdom Pro 8:1; Luk 11:49She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, Pro 8:3How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; Isa 65:12; Isa 66:4; Jer 7:13But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; Deu 28:63; Ezk 21:17When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: Isa 1:15; Jer 11:11For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: Pro 1:24; Act 13:40They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. Isa 3:10For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.1.32 turning…: or, ease of the simple But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.Psa 112:7