dynamicbible/bibles/asv/20-1.json

{"ch":1,"vss":[{"v":1,"w":[{"t":"The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:"}]},{"v":2,"w":[{"t":"To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;"}]},{"v":3,"w":[{"t":"To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;"}]},{"v":4,"w":[{"t":"To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:"}]},{"v":5,"w":[{"t":"That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:"}]},{"v":6,"w":[{"t":"To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings."}]},{"v":7,"w":[{"t":"The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction."}]},{"v":8,"w":[{"t":"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:"}]},{"v":9,"w":[{"t":"For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck."}]},{"v":10,"w":[{"t":"My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not."}]},{"v":11,"w":[{"t":"If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;"}]},{"v":12,"w":[{"t":"Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;"}]},{"v":13,"w":[{"t":"We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;"}]},{"v":14,"w":[{"t":"Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:"}]},{"v":15,"w":[{"t":"My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:"}]},{"v":16,"w":[{"t":"For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood."}]},{"v":17,"w":[{"t":"For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:"}]},{"v":18,"w":[{"t":"And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives."}]},{"v":19,"w":[{"t":"So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof."}]},{"v":20,"w":[{"t":"Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;"}]},{"v":21,"w":[{"t":"She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:"}]},{"v":22,"w":[{"t":"How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?"}]},{"v":23,"w":[{"t":"Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you."}]},{"v":24,"w":[{"t":"Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;"}]},{"v":25,"w":[{"t":"But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:"}]},{"v":26,"w":[{"t":"I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;"}]},{"v":27,"w":[{"t":"When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you."}]},{"v":28,"w":[{"t":"Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:"}]},{"v":29,"w":[{"t":"For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:"}]},{"v":30,"w":[{"t":"They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof."}]},{"v":31,"w":[{"t":"Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices."}]},{"v":32,"w":[{"t":"For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them."}]},{"v":33,"w":[{"t":"But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil."}]}]}