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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To know wisdom and instruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="content">To perceive the words of understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">To receive the instruction of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="content">Justice, and judgment, and equity;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">To give subtilty to the simple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="content">To the young man knowledge and discretion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A wise </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content"> will hear, and will increase learning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="content">And a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">To understand a proverb, and the interpretation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="content">The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the beginning of knowledge:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> fools despise wisdom and instruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My son, hear the instruction of thy father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="content">And forsake not the law of thy mother:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For they </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be</span></span><span class="content"> an ornament of grace unto thy head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="content">And chains about thy neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My son, if sinners entice thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="content">Consent thou not.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="content">Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let us swallow them up alive as the grave;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="content">And whole, as those that go down into the pit:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">We shall find all precious substance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="content">We shall fill our houses with spoil:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Cast in thy lot among us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="content">Let us all have one purse:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My son, walk not thou in the way with them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="content">Refrain thy foot from their path:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For their feet run to evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="content">And make haste to shed blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Surely in vain the net is spread</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="content">In the sight of any bird.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And they lay wait for their </span><span class="add"><span class="content">own</span></span><span class="content"> blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="content">They lurk privily for their </span><span class="add"><span class="content">own</span></span><span class="content"> lives.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Which</span></span><span class="content"> taketh away the life of the owners thereof.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Cry of Wisdom</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wisdom crieth without;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="content">She uttereth her voice in the streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="content">In the city she uttereth her words, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">saying</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">And the scorners delight in their scorning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">And fools hate knowledge?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Turn you at my reproof:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">I will make known my words unto you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Because I have called, and ye refused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="content">I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But ye have set at nought all my counsel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="content">And would none of my reproof:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I also will laugh at your calamity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="content">I will mock when your fear cometh;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When your fear cometh as desolation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">When distress and anguish cometh upon you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="content">They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">For that they hated knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="content">And did not choose the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.1.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">They would none of my counsel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="content">They despised all my reproof.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.1.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="content">And be filled with their own devices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.1.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For the turning away of the simple shall slay them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="content">And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.1.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.1.33"><span class="content">And shall be quiet from fear of evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if thou wilt receive my words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">And hide my commandments with thee;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> apply thine heart to understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yea, if thou criest after knowledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> liftest up thy voice for understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If thou seekest her as silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">And searchest for her as </span><span class="add"><span class="content">for</span></span><span class="content"> hid treasures;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then shalt thou understand the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">And find the knowledge of God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> giveth wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">Out of his mouth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">cometh</span></span><span class="content"> knowledge and understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">He is</span></span><span class="content"> a buckler to them that walk uprightly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He keepeth the paths of judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">And preserveth the way of his saints.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">And equity; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">yea</span></span><span class="content">, every good path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When wisdom entereth into thine heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">And knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Discretion shall preserve thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">Understanding shall keep thee:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">To deliver thee from the way of the evil </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">From the man that speaketh froward things;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Who leave the paths of uprightness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">To walk in the ways of darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Who rejoice to do evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> delight in the frowardness of the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whose ways </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> crooked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they</span></span><span class="content"> froward in their paths:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To deliver thee from the strange woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> from the stranger </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> flattereth with her words;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Which forsaketh the guide of her youth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">And forgetteth the covenant of her God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For her house inclineth unto death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">And her paths unto the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">None that go unto her return again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">Neither take they hold of the paths of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">That thou mayest walk in the way of good </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">And keep the paths of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the upright shall dwell in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">And the perfect shall remain in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="content">And the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.</span></span></div><div 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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, forget not my law;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.3.1"><span class="content">But let thine heart keep my commandments:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For length of days, and long life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.3.2"><span class="content">And peace, shall they add to thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let not mercy and truth forsake thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.3.3"><span class="content">Bind them about thy neck;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.3.3"><span class="content">Write them upon the table of thine heart:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So shalt thou find favour and good understanding</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.3.4"><span class="content">In the sight of God and man.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> with all thine heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.3.5"><span class="content">And lean not unto thine own understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In all thy ways acknowledge him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.3.6"><span class="content">And he shall direct thy paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Be not wise in thine own eyes:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.3.7"><span class="content">Fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and depart from evil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">It shall be health to thy navel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.3.8"><span class="content">And marrow to thy bones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Honour the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> with thy substance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.3.9"><span class="content">And with the firstfruits of all thine increase:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So shall thy barns be filled with plenty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.3.10"><span class="content">And thy presses shall burst out with new wine.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My son, despise not the chastening of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.3.11"><span class="content">Neither be weary of his correction:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For whom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> loveth he correcteth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.3.12"><span class="content">Even as a father the son </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in whom</span></span><span class="content"> he delighteth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Happy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> findeth wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.3.13"><span class="content">And the man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> getteth understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For the merchandise of it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> better than the merchandise of silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.3.14"><span class="content">And the gain thereof than fine gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">She </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> more precious than rubies:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.3.15"><span class="content">And all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Length of days </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in her right hand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.3.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> in her left hand riches and honour.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Her ways </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> ways of pleasantness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.3.17"><span class="content">And all her paths </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.3.18"><span class="content">And happy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is every one</span></span><span class="content"> that retaineth her.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> by wisdom hath founded the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.3.19"><span class="content">By understanding hath he established the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">By his knowledge the depths are broken up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.3.20"><span class="content">And the clouds drop down the dew.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">My son, let not them depart from thine eyes:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.3.21"><span class="content">Keep sound wisdom and discretion:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So shall they be life unto thy soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.3.22"><span class="content">And grace to thy neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.3.23"><span class="content">And thy foot shall not stumble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.3.24"><span class="content">Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Be not afraid of sudden fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.3.25"><span class="content">Neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> shall be thy confidence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.3.26"><span class="content">And shall keep thy foot from being taken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.3.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.3.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Withhold not good from them to whom it is due,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.3.27"><span class="content">When it is in the power of thine hand to do </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.3.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.3.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.3.28"><span class="content">And to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.3.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.3.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Devise not evil against thy neighbour,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.3.29"><span class="content">Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.3.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.3.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Strive not with a man without cause,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.3.30"><span class="content">If he have done thee no harm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.3.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.3.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Envy thou not the oppressor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.3.31"><span class="content">And choose none of his ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.3.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.3.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For the froward </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> abomination to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.3.32"><span class="content">But his secret </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> with the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.3.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.3.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The curse of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in the house of the wicked:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.3.33"><span class="content">But he blesseth the habitation of the just.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.3.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.3.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Surely he scorneth the scorners:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.3.34"><span class="content">But he giveth grace unto the lowly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.3.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.3.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The wise shall inherit glory:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.3.35"><span class="content">But shame shall be the promotion of fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">A Father's Instruction</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.4.1"><span class="content">And attend to know understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For I give you good doctrine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.4.2"><span class="content">Forsake ye not my law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I was my father's son,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.4.3"><span class="content">Tender and only </span><span class="add"><span class="content">beloved</span></span><span class="content"> in the sight of my mother.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He taught me also, and said unto me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="content">Let thine heart retain my words:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="content">Keep my commandments, and live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Get wisdom, get understanding:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.4.5"><span class="content">Forget </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.4.6"><span class="content">Love her, and she shall keep thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Wisdom </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the principal thing; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">therefore</span></span><span class="content"> get wisdom:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.4.7"><span class="content">And with all thy getting get understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Exalt her, and she shall promote thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.4.8"><span class="content">She shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"><span class="content">A crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.4.10"><span class="content">And the years of thy life shall be many.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I have taught thee in the way of wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.4.11"><span class="content">I have led thee in right paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.4.12"><span class="content">And when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Take fast hold of instruction; let </span><span class="add"><span class="content">her</span></span><span class="content"> not go:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.4.13"><span class="content">Keep her; for she </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> thy life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Enter not into the path of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"><span class="content">And go not in the way of evil </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Avoid it, pass not by it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"><span class="content">Turn from it, and pass away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For they sleep not, except they have done mischief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"><span class="content">And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause </span><span class="add"><span class="content">some</span></span><span class="content"> to fall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For they eat the bread of wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"><span class="content">And drink the wine of violence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But the path of the just </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as the shining light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="content">That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The way of the wicked </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> as darkness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"><span class="content">They know not at what they stumble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My son, attend to my words;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.4.20"><span class="content">Incline thine ear unto my sayings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Let them not depart from thine eyes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.4.21"><span class="content">Keep them in the midst of thine heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For they </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> life unto those that find them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.4.22"><span class="content">And health to all their flesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Keep thy heart with all diligence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="content">For out of it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the issues of life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Put away from thee a froward mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.4.24"><span class="content">And perverse lips put far from thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.4.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let thine eyes look right on,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.4.25"><span class="content">And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.4.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Ponder the path of thy feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.4.26"><span class="content">And let all thy ways be established.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.4.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Turn not to the right hand nor to the left:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.4.27"><span class="content">Remove thy foot from evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, attend unto my wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> bow thine ear to my understanding:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">That thou mayest regard discretion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> thy lips may keep knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the lips of a strange woman drop </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> an honeycomb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="content">And her mouth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> smoother than oil:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But her end is bitter as wormwood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="content">Sharp as a twoedged sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Her feet go down to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="content">Her steps take hold on hell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="content">Her ways are moveable, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> thou canst not know </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Hear me now therefore, O ye children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="content">And depart not from the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Remove thy way far from her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="content">And come not nigh the door of her house:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Lest thou give thine honour unto others,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="content">And thy years unto the cruel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="content">And thy labours </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> in the house of a stranger;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And thou mourn at the last,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="content">When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And say, How have I hated instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="content">And my heart despised reproof;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="content">Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I was almost in all evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="content">In the midst of the congregation and assembly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Drink waters out of thine own cistern,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="content">And running waters out of thine own well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> rivers of waters in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let them be only thine own,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="content">And not strangers' with thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let thy fountain be blessed:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="content">And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Let her be as</span></span><span class="content"> the loving hind and pleasant roe;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">And be thou ravished always with her love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="content">And embrace the bosom of a stranger?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the ways of man </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> before the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="content">And he pondereth all his goings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="content">And he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He shall die without instruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.5.23"><span class="content">And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="PRO.6">
         <div class="label">6</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if thou be surety for thy friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">If</span></span><span class="content"> thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="content">Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">When thou art come into the hand of thy friend;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">Go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Give not sleep to thine eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="content">Nor slumber to thine eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">of the hunter</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="content">And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Go to the ant, thou sluggard;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="content">Consider her ways, and be wise:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Which having no guide,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="content">Overseer, or ruler,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Provideth her meat in the summer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> gathereth her food in the harvest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="content">When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> a little sleep, a little slumber,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="content">A little folding of the hands to sleep:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="content">And thy want as an armed man.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A naughty person, a wicked man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="content">Walketh with a froward mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="content">He teacheth with his fingers;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Frowardness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="content">He soweth discord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="content">Suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These six </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> doth the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hate:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="content">Yea, seven </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> an abomination unto him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A proud look, a lying tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">And hands that shed innocent blood,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="content">Feet that be swift in running to mischief,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A false witness </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> speaketh lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="content">And he that soweth discord among brethren.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My son, keep thy father's commandment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="content">And forsake not the law of thy mother:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Bind them continually upon thine heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> tie them about thy neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When thou goest, it shall lead thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">when</span></span><span class="content"> thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For the commandment </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a lamp; and the law </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">And reproofs of instruction </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the way of life:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">To keep thee from the evil woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="content">From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Lust not after her beauty in thine heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="content">Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For by means of a whorish woman </span><span class="add"><span class="content">a man is brought</span></span><span class="content"> to a piece of bread:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="content">And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.6.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Can a man take fire in his bosom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="content">And his clothes not be burned?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Can one go upon hot coals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="content">And his feet not be burned?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.6.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="content">Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Men</span></span><span class="content"> do not despise a thief, if he steal</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="content">To satisfy his soul when he is hungry;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.6.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">if</span></span><span class="content"> he be found, he shall restore sevenfold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="content">He shall give all the substance of his house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.6.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="content">He </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> doeth it destroyeth his own soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.6.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">A wound and dishonour shall he get;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="content">And his reproach shall not be wiped away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.6.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For jealousy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the rage of a man:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="content">Therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PRO.6.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.6.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">He will not regard any ransom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PRO.6.35"><span class="content">Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, keep my words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">And lay up my commandments with thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Keep my commandments, and live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">And my law as the apple of thine eye.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Bind them upon thy fingers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">Write them upon the table of thine heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Say unto wisdom, Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> my sister;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">And call understanding </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy</span></span><span class="content"> kinswoman:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">That they may keep thee from the strange woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">From the stranger </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> flattereth with her words.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For at the window of my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">I looked through my casement,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And beheld among the simple ones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">I discerned among the youths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">A young man void of understanding,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Passing through the street near her corner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">And he went the way to her house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In the twilight, in the evening,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">In the black and dark night:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And, behold, there met him a woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">With</span></span><span class="content"> the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">(She </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> loud and stubborn;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">Her feet abide not in her house:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is she</span></span><span class="content"> without, now in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">And lieth in wait at every corner.)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So she caught him, and kissed him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> with an impudent face said unto him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I have</span></span><span class="content"> peace offerings with me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">This day have I payed my vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore came I forth to meet thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">With carved </span><span class="add"><span class="content">works</span></span><span class="content">, with fine linen of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I have perfumed my bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">Let us solace ourselves with loves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the goodman </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not at home,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">He is gone a long journey:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He hath taken a bag of money with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> will come home at the day appointed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">With her much fair speech she caused him to yield,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">With the flattering of her lips she forced him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He goeth after her straightway,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">As an ox goeth to the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Till a dart strike through his liver;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">As a bird hasteth to the snare,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">And knoweth not that it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> for his life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">And attend to the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let not thine heart decline to her ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">Go not astray in her paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For she hath cast down many wounded:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">Yea, many strong </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> have been slain by her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Her house </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the way to hell,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="content">Going down to the chambers of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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