| 1 | The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: | Pr 10:1 Pr 25:1 1Ki 4:31 1Ki 4:32 Ec 12:9 Jn 16:25 |
| 2 | To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; | Pr 4:5-7 Pr 7:4 Pr 8:5 Pr 16:16 Pr 17:16 Dt 4:5 Dt 4:6 1Ki 3:9-12 2Ti 3:15-17 |
| 3 | To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity; | Pr 2:1-9 Pr 8:10 Pr 8:11 Jb 22:22 |
| 4 | To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion: | Pr 1:22 Pr 1:23 Pr 8:5 Pr 9:4-6 Ps 19:7 Ps 119:130 Isa 35:8 |
| 5 | That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels: | Pr 9:9 Pr 12:1 Jb 34:10 Jb 34:16 Jb 34:34 Ps 119:98-100 1Co 10:15 |
| 6 | To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings. | Mt 13:10-17 Mt 13:51-17 Mt 13:52-17 Mk 4:11 Mk 4:34 Ac 8:30 Ac 8:31 |
| 7 | The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction. | Pr 9:10 Jb 28:28 Ps 111:10 Ps 112:1 Ec 12:13 |
| 8 | My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: | Pr 1:10 Pr 1:15 Pr 2:1 Pr 3:1 Pr 7:1 Mt 9:2 Mt 9:22 |
| 9 | For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. | Pr 3:22 Pr 4:9 Pr 6:20 Pr 6:21 1Ti 2:9 1Ti 2:10 1Pe 3:3 1Pe 3:4 |
| 10 | My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. | Pr 7:21-23 Pr 13:20 Pr 20:19 Gn 39:7-13 Jg 16:16-21 Ps 1:1 Ps 50:18 Ro 16:18 Eph 5:11 |
| 11 | If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; | Pr 1:16 Pr 12:6 Pr 30:14 Ps 56:6 Ps 64:5 Ps 64:6 Jer 5:26 Mic 7:2 Ac 23:15 Ac 25:3 |
| 12 | Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; | Ps 35:25 Ps 56:1 Ps 56:2 Ps 57:3 Ps 124:3 Jer 51:34 Lam 2:5 Lam 2:16 Mic 3:2 Mic 3:3 |
| 13 | We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; | Pr 1:19 Jb 24:2 Jb 24:3 Isa 10:13 Isa 10:14 Jer 22:16 Jer 22:17 Nah 2:12 Hg 2:9 Lk 12:15 1Ti 6:9 1Ti 6:10 Rev 18:9-16 |
| 14 | Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse: |
| 15 | My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: | Pr 4:14 Pr 4:15 Pr 9:6 Pr 13:20 Ps 1:1 Ps 26:4 Ps 26:5 2Co 6:17 |
| 16 | For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. | Pr 4:16 Pr 6:18 Isa 59:7 Ro 3:5 |
| 17 | For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird: | Pr 7:23 Jb 35:11 Isa 1:3 Jer 8:7 |
| 18 | And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. | Pr 5:22 Pr 5:23 Pr 9:17 Pr 9:18 Pr 28:17 Es 7:10 Ps 7:14-16 Ps 9:16 Ps 55:23 Mt 27:4 Mt 27:5 |
| 19 | So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof. | Pr 15:27 Pr 23:3 Pr 23:4 2Sa 18:11-13 2Ki 5:20-27 Jer 22:17-19 Mic 2:1-3 Mic 3:10-12 Hab 2:9 Ac 8:19 Ac 8:20 1Ti 3:3 1Ti 6:9 1Ti 6:10 Jm 5:1-4 2Pe 2:3 2Pe 2:14-16 |
| 20 | Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; | Mt 13:54 Lk 11:49 1Co 1:24 1Co 1:30 Col 2:3 |
| 21 | She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words: | Pr 9:3 Mt 10:27 Mt 13:2 Jn 18:20 Ac 5:20 |
| 22 | How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? | Pr 6:9 Ex 10:3 Ex 16:28 Nm 14:27 Mt 17:17 |
| 23 | Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you. | Isa 55:1-3 Isa 55:6-3 Isa 55:7-3 Jer 3:14 Ezk 18:27-30 Ezk 33:11 Hos 14:1 Ac 3:19 Ac 26:20 |
| 24 | Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded; | Isa 50:2 Isa 65:12 Isa 66:4 Jer 7:13 Ezk 8:18 Zc 7:11 Zc 7:12 Mt 22:5 Mt 22:6 Mt 23:37 Mt 23:38 Heb 12:25 Heb 12:26 |
| 25 | But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: | Pr 1:30 2Ch 36:16 Ps 107:11 Lk 7:30 |
| 26 | I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; | Jg 10:14 Ps 2:4 Ps 37:13 Lk 14:24 |
| 27 | When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you. | Pr 3:25 Pr 3:26 Pr 10:24 Pr 10:25 Ps 69:22-28 Lk 21:26 Lk 21:34 Lk 21:35 1Th 5:3 Rev 6:15-17 |
| 28 | Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me: | Gn 6:3 Jb 27:9 Jb 35:12 Ps 18:41 Isa 1:15 Jer 11:11 Jer 14:12 Ezk 8:18 Mic 3:4 Zc 7:13 Mt 7:22 Mt 7:23 Mt 25:10-12 Lk 13:25-28 Jm 4:3 |
| 29 | For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah: | Pr 1:22 Pr 5:12 Pr 6:23 Jb 21:14 Jb 21:15 Ps 50:16 Ps 50:17 Isa 27:11 Isa 30:9-12 Jn 3:20 Ac 7:51-54 |
| 30 | They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof. | Pr 1:25 Ps 81:11 Ps 119:111 Ps 119:173 Jer 8:9 Lk 14:18-20 |
| 31 | Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. | Pr 14:14 Pr 22:8 Jb 4:8 Isa 3:10 Isa 3:11 Jer 2:19 Jer 6:19 Ga 6:7 Ga 6:8 |
| 32 | For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them. | Pr 8:36 Jn 3:36 Heb 10:38 Heb 10:39 Heb 12:25 |
| 33 | But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil. | Pr 8:32-35 Pr 9:11 Ps 25:12 Ps 25:13 Ps 81:13 Isa 48:18 Isa 55:3 Mt 17:5 Jn 10:27-29 1Pe 1:5 |