### Noah Webster Bible

Psalms 150

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 1
| The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
| To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
| To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
| To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
| A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
| To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
| The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
| My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
| For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
| My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
| If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
| Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
| We 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:
| For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
| Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
| And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
| So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.
| Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
| She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
| How 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 to you, I will make known to you my words.
| Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
| But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and rejected my reproof:
| I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
| When 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:
| For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
| They rejected 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.
| For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
| But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

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