Proverbs

⁵That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; and that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: ⁶To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. ⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. ⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ⁹For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. ¹⁰My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. ¹¹If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;