This eBook was produced by David Widger with the help of Derek Andrew's text from January 1992 and the work of Bryan Taylor in November 2002. Book 20 Proverbs 20:001:001 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 20:001:002 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 20:001:003 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 20:001:004 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 20:001:005 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 20:001:006 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 20:001:007 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 20:001:008 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 20:001:009 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. 20:001:010 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 20:001:011 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 20:001:012 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 20:001:013 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 20:001:014 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 20:001:015 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 20:001:016 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 20:001:017 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 20:001:018 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 20:001:019 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. 20:001:020 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 20:001:021 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 20:001:022 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 20:001:023 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 20:001:024 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 20:001:025 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 20:001:026 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 20:001:027 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.