The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and chastening.

to receive the chastening of prudence, justice, judgment, and equity;

to give prudence to the simple, and to the young men knowledge and council.

To understand a parable and the interpretation; the words of the wise and their enigmas.

My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause.

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol and whole as those that go down into the pit;

We shall find all kinds of riches, we shall fill our houses with spoil.

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;

My son, do not walk in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

And they lay in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own souls.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

For their feet shall run to evil and make haste to shed blood.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and the fools hate knowledge?

Return at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the entrance to the gates of the city she utters her words, saying,

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of those who possess it.

Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one responded;

Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

for because ye have disregarded all my counsel and rejected my reproof:

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;

Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own counsel.

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.

They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely and shall rest from the fear of evil.

For the rest of the ignorant shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

For they shall be an increase of grace unto thy head and protection about thy neck.

Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:

to know wisdom and chastening; to understand prudent words;

My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.

If the wise will hear them, doctrine shall increase, and the man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel: