2 To know wisdom and instruction to perceive the words of understanding

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom justice and judgment and equity

4 To give subtilty to the simple to the young man knowledge and discretion

5 A wise man will hear and will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels

6 To understand a proverb and the interpretation the words of the wise and their dark sayings

7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction

8 My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother

9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head and chains about thy neck

10 My son if sinners entice thee consent thou not

11 If they say Come with us let us lay wait for blood let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause

12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pit

13 We shall find all precious substance we shall fill our houses with spoil

14 Cast in thy lot among us let us all have one purse

15 My son walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their path

16 For their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird __

18 And they lay wait for their own blood they lurk privily for their own lives

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which taketh away the life of the owners thereof

20 Wisdom crieth without she uttereth her voice in the streets

21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse in the openings of the gates in the city she uttereth her words saying

22 How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge

23 Turn you at my reproof behold I will pour out my spirit unto you I will make known my words unto you

24 Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof

26 I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh

27 When your fear cometh as desolation __ and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you

28 Then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me

29 For that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD

30 They would none of my counsel they despised all my reproof

31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them

33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil