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Proverbs
Offers wisdom and advice on how to live a good and meaningful life.
Chapter 1
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1
KJV:
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Geneva:
The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,
2
KJV:
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Geneva:
To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,
3
KJV:
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Geneva:
To receiue instruction to do wisely, by iustice and iudgement and equitie,
4
KJV:
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Geneva:
To giue vnto the simple, sharpenesse of wit, and to the childe knowledge and discretion.
5
KJV:
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Geneva:
A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,
6
KJV:
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Geneva:
To vnderstand a parable, & the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.
7
KJV:
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Geneva:
The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
8
KJV:
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Geneva:
My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.
9
KJV:
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Geneva:
For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.
10
KJV:
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Geneva:
My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.
11
KJV:
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Geneva:
If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:
12
KJV:
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Geneva:
We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
13
KJV:
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Geneva:
We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:
14
KJV:
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Geneva:
Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:
15
KJV:
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Geneva:
My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.
16
KJV:
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Geneva:
For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.
17
KJV:
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Geneva:
Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
18
KJV:
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Geneva:
So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
19
KJV:
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Geneva:
Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
20
KJV:
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Geneva:
Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.
21
KJV:
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
Geneva:
She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
22
KJV:
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Geneva:
O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?
23
KJV:
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Geneva:
(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)
24
KJV:
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Geneva:
Because I haue called, & ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, & none woulde regarde.
25
KJV:
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Geneva:
But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.
26
KJV:
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Geneva:
I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.
27
KJV:
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Geneva:
Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, & your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction & anguish shal come vpo you,
28
KJV:
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Geneva:
Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,
29
KJV:
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Geneva:
Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.
30
KJV:
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Geneva:
They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.
31
KJV:
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Geneva:
Therefore shal they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.
32
KJV:
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Geneva:
For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.
33
KJV:
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Geneva:
But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.
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