The Leeser Bible
1853 by Isaac Leeser
Proverbs Chapter 1
Pro 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, the king of Israel:
Pro 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the sayings of understanding;
Pro 1:3 To accept the instruction of intelligence, righteousness, and justice, and equity;
Pro 1:4 To give to the simple prudence, to the youth knowledge and discretion.
Pro 1:5 The wise will hear, and will increase [his] information; and the man of understanding will obtain wise counsels:
Pro 1:6 To understand a proverb, and a sage sentence; the words of the wise, and their riddles.
Pro 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools [alone] despise.
Pro 1:8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and cast not off the teaching of thy mother;
Pro 1:9 For a wreath of grace are they unto thy head, and chains for thy throat.
Pro 1:10 My son, if sinners wish to entice thee, consent thou not.
Pro 1:11 If they should say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us watch in concealment for the uselessly innocent;
Pro 1:12 We will swallow them up like the grave alive; and the men of integrity, as those that go down into the pit;
Pro 1:13 We shall find all [kinds of] precious wealth, we will fill our houses with booty;
Pro 1:14 Thy lot must thou cast in our midst; one purse shall be for us all:
Pro 1:15 My son, walk not thou on the way with them; withhold thy foot from their path;
Pro 1:16 For their feet run after evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
Pro 1:17 For uselessly is the net spread out before the eyes of every winged bird:
Pro 1:18 While they lie in wait for their [own] blood; they watch in concealment for their [own] lives.
Pro 1:19 So are the paths of every one that is greedy after [unlawful] gain; it taketh away the life of those that own it.
Pro 1:20 Wisdom crieth loudly without; in the public places she uttereth her voice;
Pro 1:21 At the corner of noisy streets she calleth, at the entrances of gates; in the city she sayeth her speeches:
Pro 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Pro 1:23 Turn back to my admonition: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Pro 1:24 Whereas I called, and ye refused; I stretched out my hand, and no man was attentive;
Pro 1:25 And ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would not accept my admonition:
Pro 1:26 [Therefore] I also will truly laugh at your calamity; I will deride [you] when your terror cometh;
Pro 1:27 When your terror cometh like the tempest–cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction.
Pro 1:28 Then will they call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me;
Pro 1:29 For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;
Pro 1:30 [That] they would not attend to my counsel: [that] they rejected all my admonition.
Pro 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and from their own counsels shall they be satisfied.
Pro 1:32 For the defection of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will cause them to be lost.
Pro 1:33 But he that hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from the dread of evil.
