Proverbs 1:7-19 - Advice To The Young

⁷ The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother: ⁹ For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat ¹⁰ My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in. ¹¹ If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously; ¹² We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit: ¹³ We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil: ¹⁴ Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all: ¹⁵ My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths: ¹⁶ For their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out blood: ¹⁷ For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing. ¹⁸ And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls. ¹⁹ So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.