### Douay Rheims Bible

Psalms 150

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 1
#### 1 | The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
#### 2 | To know wisdom, and instruction:
#### 3 | To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:
#### 4 | To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
#### 5 | A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.
#### 6 | He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.
#### 7 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
#### 8 | My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother :
#### 9 | That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.
#### 10 | My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.
#### 11 | If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
#### 12 | Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
#### 13 | We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
#### 14 | Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
#### 15 | My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
#### 16 | For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
#### 17 | But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
#### 18 | And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
#### 19 | So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
#### 20 | Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
#### 21 | At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
#### 22 | O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
#### 23 | Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
#### 24 | Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
#### 25 | You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
#### 26 | I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
#### 27 | When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
#### 28 | Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
#### 29 | Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
#### 30 | Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
#### 31 | Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
#### 32 | The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
#### 33 | But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.

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