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Proverbs 1

1 The power and use of the word of God. 7 Of the fear of God and knowledge of his word. 10 We may not consent to the enticings of sinners. 20 Wisdom complaineth that she is contemned. 24 The punishment of them that contemn her.
1.The Parables of Salomón the son of David King of Israel.
2.To know wisdom, aand instruction, to understand the words of bknowledge,
3.To receive cinstruction to do wisely, by djustice and judgment and equity,
4.To give unto the esimple sharpness of wit, and to the child knowledge and discretion.
5.A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of funderstanding, shall attain unto wise counsels,
6.To understand a parable, 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 thy gfather’s instruction, and forsake not thy hmother’s teaching.
9.For they shalbe ^a comely ornament unto thine head, and as chains for thy neck.
10.¶ My son, iif sinners do entice thee, consent thou not.
11.If they say, Come with us, we will lay wait for kblood, and lie privily for the innocent without a cause:
12.We will swallow them up alive like a lgrave even whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13.We shall find all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoil:
14.Cast in thy lot among us: we will all have one mpurse:
15.My son, walk not thou in the way with them: refrain thy foot from their npath.
16.For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17.Certainly as without cause the net is spread before the eyes of all that hath wing:
18.So they lay wait for blood, and lie privily for otheir lives.
19.Such are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain: he would take away the plife of the owners thereof.
20.qWisdom crieth without: she uttereth her voice in the rstreets.
21.She calleth in the high street among the prease in the enterings of the gates, and uttereth her words in the city, saying,
22.O ye sfoolish, how long will ye love foolishness? & the scornful take their pleasure in scorning, and the fools hate knowledge?
23.(Turn you at my correction: lo, I will pour out my mind unto you, and make you understand my words)
24.Because I have called, and ye refused: I have stretched out mine hand, and none would regard.
25.But ye have despised all my counsel, and would none of my correction.
26.I will also tlaugh at your destruction, and mock, when your fear cometh.
27.When uyour fear cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come, like a whirl wind: when affliction and anguish shall come upon you,
28.Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer: they shall seek me early, but they shall not xfind me,
29.Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
30.They would none of my counsel, but ydespised all my correction.
31.Therefore shall they eat of the zfruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32.For aease slayeth the foolish, and the prosperity of fools destroyeth them.
33.But he that obeieth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from fear of evil.

Notes

2-a.
That is, what we ought to know and follow, & what we ought to refuse.
2-b.
Meaning the word of God wherein is the only true knowledge.
3-c.
To learn to submit ourselves to the correction of those that are wise.
3-d.
By living justly and rendering to every man that which appertains unto him.
4-e.
To such as have not discretion to rule themselves.
5-f.
As he shows that these parables containing the effect of religion as touching manners and doctrine do appertain to the simple people: so does he declare that the same is also necessary for them that are wise and learned.
7-*.
Ps. 111.10, Ecc. 1.16.
8-g.
He speaks this in the Name of God, who is the universal Father of all creatures, or in the Name of the pastor of the Church, who is as a father.
8-h.
That is, of the Church, wherein the faithful are begotten by the incorruptible seed of God’s word.
9-^.
Ebr., increase of grace.
10-i.
To wit, the wicked, which have not the fear of God.
11-k.
He speaks not only of the shedding of blood with hand, but of all crafty practices which tend to the detriment of our neighbour.
12-l.
As the grave is never satiate so the avarice of the wicked and their cruelty has no end.
14-m.
He shows whereby the wicked are allured to join together, because they have every one part of the spoil of the innocent.
15-n.
That is, have nothing at all to do with them.
18-o.
He shows that there is no cause to move these wicked to spoil the innocent, but their avarice and cruelty.
19-p.
Whereby he concludes that the covetous man is a murderer.
20-q.
This wisdom is the eternal word of God.
20-r.
So that none can pretend ignorance.
22-s.
Wisdom reproves three kinds of men: the foolish or simple, which error of ignorance, & the mockers, that can not suffer to be taught, and the fools which are drowned in worldly lusts, and hate the knowledge of godliness.
26-t.
This is spoken according to our capacity, signifying that the wicked, which mock & jest at God’s word, shall have the just reward of their mocking.
27-u.
This is, your destruction, which thing you feared.
28-x.
Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of their own grief.
30-y.
Showing that without faith & obedience, we can not call upon God aright.
31-z.
They shall feel what commodity their wicked life shall give them.
32-a.
That is the prosperity, and sensuality, wherein they delight.