# Proverbs 1

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David,
king of Israel, [2] for gaining wisdom and discipline,
for comprehending words of insight, [3] and for receiving instruction in wise living
and in righteousness, justice, and equity. [4] To impart prudence to the simple
and knowledge and discretion to the young, [5] let the wise listen and gain instruction,
and the discerning acquire wise counsel [6] by understanding the proverbs and parables,
the sayings and riddles of the wise. [7] The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline. [8] Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction,
and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. [9] For they are a garland of grace on your head
and a pendant around your neck. [10] My son, if sinners entice you,
do not yield to them. [11] If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood,
let us ambush the innocent without cause, [12] let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
and whole like those descending into the Pit. [13] We will find all manner of precious goods;
we will fill our houses with plunder. [14] Throw in your lot with us;
let us all share one purse”— [15] my son, do not walk the road with them
or set foot upon their path. [16] For their feet run to evil,
and they are swift to shed blood. [17] How futile it is to spread the net
where any bird can see it! [18] But they lie in wait for their own blood;
they ambush their own lives. [19] Such is the fate of all who are greedy,
whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors. [20] Wisdom calls out in the street,
she lifts her voice in the square; [21] in the main concourse she cries aloud,
at the city gates she makes her speech: [22] “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways?
How long will scoffers delight in their scorn
and fools hate knowledge? [23] If you had repented at my rebuke,
then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you;
I would have made my words known to you. [24] Because you refused my call,
and no one took my outstretched hand, [25] because you neglected all my counsel,
and wanted none of my correction, [26] in turn I will mock your calamity;
I will sneer when terror strikes you, [27] when your dread comes like a storm,
and your destruction like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish overwhelm you. [28] Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;
they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me. [29] For they hated knowledge
and chose not to fear the LORD. [30] They accepted none of my counsel;
they despised all my reproof. [31] So they will eat the fruit of their own way,
and be filled with their own devices. [32] For the waywardness of the simple will slay them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them. [33] But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety,
secure from the fear of evil.”

## Each verse

- Proverbs 1:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/1
- Proverbs 1:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/2
- Proverbs 1:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/3
- Proverbs 1:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/4
- Proverbs 1:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/5
- Proverbs 1:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/6
- Proverbs 1:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/7
- Proverbs 1:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/8
- Proverbs 1:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/9
- Proverbs 1:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/10
- Proverbs 1:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/11
- Proverbs 1:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/12
- Proverbs 1:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/13
- Proverbs 1:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/14
- Proverbs 1:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/15
- Proverbs 1:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/16
- Proverbs 1:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/17
- Proverbs 1:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/18
- Proverbs 1:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/19
- Proverbs 1:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/20
- Proverbs 1:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/21
- Proverbs 1:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/22
- Proverbs 1:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/23
- Proverbs 1:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/24
- Proverbs 1:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/25
- Proverbs 1:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/26
- Proverbs 1:27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/27
- Proverbs 1:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/28
- Proverbs 1:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/29
- Proverbs 1:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/30
- Proverbs 1:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/31
- Proverbs 1:32 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/32
- Proverbs 1:33 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/33