Complete KJV Holy Bible

20_PRO_01_01 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

20_PRO_01_02 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

20_PRO_01_03 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

20_PRO_01_04 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

20_PRO_01_05 A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise
counsels:

20_PRO_01_06 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

20_PRO_01_07 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.

20_PRO_01_08 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

20_PRO_01_09 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

20_PRO_01_10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

20_PRO_01_11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

20_PRO_01_12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

20_PRO_01_13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

20_PRO_01_14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

20_PRO_01_15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

20_PRO_01_16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

20_PRO_01_17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

20_PRO_01_18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

20_PRO_01_19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners
thereof.

20_PRO_01_20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

20_PRO_01_21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her
words, [saying],

20_PRO_01_22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools
hate knowledge?

20_PRO_01_23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto
you.

20_PRO_01_24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

20_PRO_01_25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

20_PRO_01_26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

20_PRO_01_27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and
anguish cometh upon you.

20_PRO_01_28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find
me:

20_PRO_01_29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

20_PRO_01_30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

20_PRO_01_31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

20_PRO_01_32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

20_PRO_01_33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.