Proverbs 1
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Proverbs 1
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1 Kings 4.32; Eccl 12.9 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
Prologue
2For learning about wisdom and instruction,
for understanding words of insight,
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Prov 2.9; 19.20 for gaining instruction in wise dealing,
righteousness, justice, and equity;
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Prov 2.10, 11; 8.5, 12 to teach shrewdness to the simple,
knowledge and prudence to the young—
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Prov 9.9; 14.6 let the wise, too, hear and gain in learning
and the discerning acquire skill,
6to understand a proverb and a figure,
the words of the wise and their riddles.
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Job 28.28; Ps 111.10; Eccl 12.13 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Warnings against Evil Companions
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Prov 4.1; 6.20 Hear, my child, your father’s instruction,
and do not reject your mother’s teaching,
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Gen 41.42; Prov 4.9 for they are a fair garland for your head
and pendants for your neck.
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Deut 13.8; Eph 5.11 My child, if sinners entice you,
do not consent.
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v 18
; Prov 12.6If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
let us wantonly ambush the innocent;
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Ps 28.1; 124.3 like Sheol let us swallow them alive
and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.
13We shall find all kinds of costly things;
we shall fill our houses with spoil.
14Throw in your lot among us;
we will all have one purse”—
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Ps 1.1; 119.101 my child, do not walk in their way;
keep your foot from their paths,
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Isa 59.7
for their feet run to evil,
and they hurry to shed blood.
17For in vain is the net baited
while the bird is looking on;
18yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves!
and set an ambush—for their own lives!
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Prov 15.27
Such is the end#1.19 Gk: Heb are the ways of all who are greedy for gain;
it takes away the life of its possessors.
The Call of Wisdom
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Prov 8.1
Wisdom cries out in the street;
in the squares she raises her voice.
21At the busiest corner she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
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vv 4, 29, 32; Ps 1.1“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?
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Joel 2.28
Give heed to my reproof;
I will pour out my thoughts to you;
I will make my words known to you.
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Isa 65.12; Zech 7.11; Rom 10.21 Because I have called and you refused,
have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,
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Ps 107.11; Prov 15.10; Lk 7.30 and because you have ignored all my counsel
and would have none of my reproof,
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Ps 2.4; Prov 6.15; 10.24 I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when panic strikes you,
27when panic strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
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Isa 1.15; Ezek 8.18; Mic 3.4; Zech 7.13 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
29Because they hated knowledge
and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
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Ps 81.11
would have none of my counsel
and despised all my reproof,
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Job 4.8; Prov 14.14; Isa 3.11; Jer 6.19 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
and be sated with their own devices.
32 #
Jer 2.19
For waywardness kills the simple,
and the complacency of fools destroys them;
33 #
Ps 25.12
but those who listen to me will be secure
and will live at ease without dread of disaster.”
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