### American Standard Version

Psalms 150

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 1
#### 1 | The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
#### 2 | To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;
#### 3 | To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;
#### 4 | To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:
#### 5 | That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
#### 6 | To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
#### 7 | The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish 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 a chaplet 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 Sheol, 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 | Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will 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 they make haste to shed blood.
#### 17 | For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
#### 18 | And these 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; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
#### 20 | Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
#### 21 | She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
#### 22 | How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
#### 23 | Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
#### 24 | Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
#### 25 | But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
#### 26 | I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
#### 27 | When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
#### 28 | Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
#### 29 | For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:
#### 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 backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
#### 33 | But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.

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