Proverbs 1:7-19 - Advice To The Young

⁷ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

⁸ My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ⁹ for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck. ¹⁰ My son, consent not unto sinners, ¹¹ if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause: ¹² Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit. ¹³ So shall we find all manner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoils. ¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among us, we shall have all one purse." ¹⁵ My son, walk not thou with them, refrain thy foot from their ways. ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood. ¹⁷ But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes. ¹⁸ Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another. ¹⁹ These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.