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1 ) The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel,
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2 ) To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding,
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3 ) To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity,
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4 ) To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
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5 ) A wise man will hear, and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
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6 ) To understand a proverb, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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7 ) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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8 ) My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
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9 ) For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.
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10 ) My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
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11 ) If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:
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12 ) Let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down into the pit: