Proverbs

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; ¹²Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit; ¹³We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;