The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
subtilty
Proverbs 1:22,23 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners …
Proverbs 8:5 O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be you of an understanding …
Proverbs 9:4-6 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that wants understanding, …
Psalm 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony …
Psalm 119:130 The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.
Isaiah 35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called …
to the
Proverbs 7:7-24 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a …
Proverbs 8:17,32 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me…
Psalm 34:11 Come, you children, listen to me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Psalm 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto …
Ecclesiastes 11:9,10 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil …
2 Timothy 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, …
Titus 2:6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
discretion
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
a proverb
Matthew 13:10-17,51,52 And the disciples came, and said to him, Why speak you to them in parables…
Mark 4:11,34 And he said to them, To you it is given to know the mystery of the …
Acts 8:30,31 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, …
the interpretation
Ecclesiastes 12:11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the …
dark
Psalm 49:4 I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying on the harp.
Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Matthew 13:34,35 All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables; and without …
Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age…
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in …
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
fear
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge …
Job 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; …
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding …
Psalm 112:1 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that …
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep …
beginning
Proverbs 1:22,29,30 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners …
Proverbs 5:12,13 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof…
Proverbs 15:5 A fool despises his father's instruction: but he that regards reproof …
Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
John 3:18-21 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not …
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God …
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
my son
Proverbs 1:10,15 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not…
Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
Matthew 9:2,22 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on …
hear
Proverbs 4:1-4 Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know …
Proverbs 5:1,2 My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding…
Proverbs 6:20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, …
Proverbs 31:1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
Leviticus 19:3 You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my …
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey …
1 Samuel 2:25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if …
2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in you, which …
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
they
Proverbs 3:22 So shall they be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.
Proverbs 4:9 She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory …
Proverbs 6:20,21 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of …
1 Timothy 2:9,10 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, …
1 Peter 3:3,4 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the …
ornament
Songs 1:10 Your cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, your neck with chains of gold.
Songs 4:9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished …
Isaiah 3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Ezekiel 16:11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, …
Daniel 5:7,16,29 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, …
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
let us lay
Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth …
Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth …
Psalm 56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark …
Psalm 64:5,6 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying …
Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that …
Micah 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright …
Acts 23:15 Now therefore you with the council signify to the chief captain that …
Acts 25:3 And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, …
let us lurk
Proverbs 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.
Psalm 10:8-10 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places …
Psalm 17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young …
Psalm 35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which …
Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; …
Jeremiah 18:18-20 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; …
Matthew 26:3,4 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the …
John 15:25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is …
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
swallow
Psalm 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them …
Psalm 56:1,2 Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting …
Psalm 57:3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that …
Psalm 124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed …
Lamentations 2:5,16 The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed …
Micah 3:2,3 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from …
as the
Psalm 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is …
Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used …
whole
Numbers 16:30-33 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and …
Numbers 26:10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with …
Psalm 28:1 To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if …
Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from …
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes …
Job 24:2,3 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof…
Isaiah 10:13,14 For he said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my …
Jeremiah 22:16,17 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with …
Nahum 2:12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled …
Haggai 2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, …
Luke 12:15 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness…
1 Timothy 6:9,10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …
Revelation 18:9-16 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived …
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
walk
Proverbs 4:14,15 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men…
Proverbs 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, …
Psalm 26:4,5 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers…
2 Corinthians 6:17 Why come out from among them, and be you separate, said the Lord, …
refrain
Proverbs 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.
Proverbs 5:8 Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:
Psalm 119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep your word.
Jeremiah 14:10 Thus said the LORD to this people, Thus have they loved to wander, …
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
Proverbs 5:22,23 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be …
Proverbs 9:17,18 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant…
Proverbs 28:17 A man that does violence to the blood of any person shall flee to …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Psalm 7:14-16 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and …
Psalm 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is …
Psalm 55:23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: …
Matthew 27:4,5 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. …
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
every
Proverbs 15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates …
Proverbs 23:3,4 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat…
2 Samuel 18:11-13 And Joab said to the man that told him, And, behold, you saw him, …
2 Kings 5:20-27 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my …
Jeremiah 22:17-19 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and …
Micah 2:1-3 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …
Micah 3:10-12 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity…
Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he …
Acts 8:19,20 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, …
1 Timothy 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, …
1 Timothy 6:9,10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …
James 5:1-4 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …
2 Peter 2:3,14-16 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise …
taketh
Job 31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused …
Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches …
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
how
Proverbs 6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?
Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus said …
Exodus 16:28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long refuse you to keep my commandments …
Numbers 14:27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against …
Matthew 17:17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, …
ye simple
Proverbs 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a …
Proverbs 9:4-6,16-18 Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him that wants understanding, …
Psalm 94:8 Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
Matthew 9:13 But go you and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not …
Matthew 11:29,30 Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in …
Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them …
Luke 19:42 Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day…
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, …
the scorners
Proverbs 3:34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace to the lowly.
Proverbs 14:6 A scorner seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy to …
Proverbs 15:12 A scorner loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go to the wise.
Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
Proverbs 21:11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the …
Job 34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, …
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, …
fools
Proverbs 1:7,29 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise …
Proverbs 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
John 3:20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the …
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
turn
Isaiah 55:1-3,6,7 Ho, every one that thirsts, come you to the waters, and he that has …
Jeremiah 3:14 Turn, O backsliding children, said the LORD; for I am married to …
Ezekiel 18:27-30 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he …
Ezekiel 33:11 Say to them, As I live, said the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in …
Hosea 14:1 O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
Acts 3:19 Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out…
Acts 26:20 But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout …
my reproof
Proverbs 1:25,30 But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my reproof…
Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs …
Proverbs 10:17 He is in the way of life that keeps instruction: but he that refuses …
Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be …
Psalm 145:1 I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name for ever and ever.
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
behold
Isaiah 32:15 Until the spirit be poured on us from on high, and the wilderness …
Isaiah 45:8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: …
Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit …
Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of …
Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children…
John 7:36,37 What manner of saying is this that he said, You shall seek me, and …
Acts 2:36-38 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has …
Revelation 3:16-18 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will …
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
i have called
Isaiah 50:2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none …
Isaiah 65:12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and you shall all bow down …
Isaiah 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on …
Jeremiah 7:13 And now, because you have done all these works, said the LORD, and …
Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither …
Zechariah 7:11,12 But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped …
Matthew 22:5,6 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, …
Matthew 23:37,38 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them …
Hebrews 12:25,26 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not …
stretched
Psalm 31:20 You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man…
Acts 4:30 By stretching forth your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders …
Romans 10:21 But to Israel he said, All day long I have stretched forth my hands …
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
your fear
Proverbs 3:25,26 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, …
Proverbs 10:24,25 The fear of the wicked, it shall come on him: but the desire of the …
Psalm 69:22-28 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should …
Luke 21:26,34,35 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things …
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
Revelation 6:15-17 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, …
as a
Psalm 58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as …
Isaiah 17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall …
Nahum 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all …
distress
Luke 21:23-25 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck, …
Romans 2:9 Tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man that does evil, of …
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
shall they
Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for …
Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Job 35:12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Psalm 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but …
Isaiah 1:15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …
Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore thus said the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil on them, …
Jeremiah 14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt …
Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither …
Micah 3:4 Then shall they cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will …
Zechariah 7:13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not …
Matthew 7:22,23 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied …
Matthew 25:10-12 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were …
Luke 13:25-28 When once the master of the house is risen up, and has shut to the …
James 4:3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume …
they shall seek
Psalm 78:34-36 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired …
Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, …
Hosea 6:1-4 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will …
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
that
Proverbs 1:22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners …
Proverbs 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs …
Job 21:14,15 Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the …
Psalm 50:16,17 But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, …
Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the …
Isaiah 30:9-12 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will …
John 3:20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the …
Acts 7:51-54 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always …
not
Luke 10:42 But one thing is needful: and Mary has chosen that good part, which …
Hebrews 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than …
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a …
Proverbs 22:8 He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Isaiah 3:10,11 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they …
Jeremiah 2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall …
Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the …
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that …
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
the turning
Proverbs 8:36 But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate …
John 3:36 He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes …
Hebrews 10:38,39 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul …
Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not …
and the
Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown …
Psalm 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should …
Psalm 92:6,7 A brutish man knows not; neither does a fool understand this…
Luke 12:16-21 And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The ground of a certain rich …
Luke 16:19-25 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
Hebrews 12:8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then …
James 5:5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have …
prosperity
Jeremiah 48:11,12 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, …
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
whoso
Proverbs 8:32-35 Now therefore listen to me, O you children: for blessed are they …
Proverbs 9:11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life …
Psalm 25:12,13 What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way …
Psalm 81:13 Oh that my people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Isaiah 48:18 O that you had listened to my commandments! then had your peace been …
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; …
Matthew 17:5 While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and …
John 10:27-29 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me…
1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready …
and shall
Proverbs 3:21-26 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion…
Proverbs 14:26 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall …
Psalm 112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting …
Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: …
Luke 21:9,19 But when you shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: …
Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, …
