the use of the proverbs, 1-6; An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word, 7-9; to avoid the enticings of sinners, 10-19. Wisdom complains of her contempt, 20-23; She threatens her contemners, 24-33. Proverbs 10:1 25:1 1Ki 4:31,32 Ec 12:9 Joh 16:25

solomon 2Sa 12:24,25 1Ki 2:12 1Ch 22:9 28:5 29:28

2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

4:5-7 7:4 8:5 16:16 17:16 De 4:5,6 1Ki 3:9-12 2Ti 3:15-17

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

receive 2:1,9 8:10,11 Job 22:22

equity 1Ki 3:28

4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

subtilty 1:22,23 8:5 9:4-6 Ps 19:7 119:130 Isa 35:8

to the 7:7-24 8:17,32 Ps 34:11 119:9 Ec 11:9,10 12:1 2Ti 2:22 Tit 2:6

discretion

5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

wise 9:9 12:1 Job 34:10,16,34 Ps 119:98-100 1Co 10:15

a man 1Sa 25:32,33 2Ch 25:16

6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

a proverb Mt 13:10-17,51,52 Mr 4:11,34 Ac 8:30,31

the interpretation Ec 12:11

dark Ps 49:4 78:2 Mt 13:34,35 Heb 5:14 2Pe 3:16

7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

fear 9:10 Job 28:28 Ps 111:10 112:1 Ec 12:13

beginning 1:22,29,30 5:12,13 15:5 18:2 Joh 3:18-21 Ro 1:28

8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

my son 1:10,15 2:1 3:1 7:1 Mt 9:2,22

hear 4:1-4 5:1,2 6:20 30:17 31:1 Le 19:3 De 21:18-21 1Sa 2:25 2Ti 1:5

9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

they 3:22 4:9 6:20,21 1Ti 2:9,10 1Pe 3:3,4

ornament So 1:10 4:9 Isa 3:19 Eze 16:11 Da 5:7,16,29

10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

7:21-23 13:20 20:19 Ge 39:7-13 Jud 16:16-21 Ps 1:1 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:

let us lay 1:16 12:6 30:14 Ps 56:6 64:5,6 Jer 5:26 Mic 7:2 Ac 23:15 Ac 25:3

let us lurk 1:18 Ps 10:8-10 17:12 35:7 Jer 11:19 18:18-20 Mt 26:3,4 Joh 15:25

12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

swallow Ps 35:25 56:1,2 57:3 124:3 Jer 51:34 La 2:5,16 Mic 3:2,3

as the Ps 5:9 Ro 3:13

whole Nu 16:30-33 26:10 Ps 28:1 143:7

13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

1:19 Job 24:2,3 Isa 10:13,14 Jer 22:16,17 Na 2:12 Hag 2:9 Lu 12:15 1Ti 6:9,10 Re 18:9-16

14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

no entries

15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

walk 4:14,15 9:6 13:20 Ps 1:1 26:4,5 2Co 6:17

refrain 4:27 5:8 Ps 119:101 Jer 14:10

16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

4:16 6:18 Isa 59:7 Ro 3:5

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

in vain 7:23 Job 35:11 Isa 1:3 Jer 8:7

sight of any bird means eyes of anything that hath a wing

18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

5:22,23 9:17,18 28:17 Es 7:10 Ps 7:14-16 9:16 55:23 Mt 27:4,5

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

every 15:27 23:3,4 2Sa 18:11-13 2Ki 5:20-27 Jer 22:17-19 Mic 2:1-3 3:10-12 Hab 2:9 Ac 8:19,20 1Ti 3:3 6:9,10 Jas 5:1-4 2Pe 2:3,14-16

taketh Job 31:39 Ec 5:13

20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

wisdom Mt 13:54 Lu 11:49 1Co 1:24,30 Col 2:3

crieth 8:1-5 9:3 Joh 7:37

21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

9:3 Mt 10:27 13:2 Joh 18:20 Ac 5:20

22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

how 6:9 Ex 10:3 16:28 Nu 14:27 Mt 17:17

ye simple 7:7 9:4-6,16-18 Ps 94:8 Mt 9:13 11:29,30 23:37 Lu 19:42 Re 22:17

the scorners 3:34 14:6 15:12 19:29 21:11 Job 34:7 Ps 1:1 2Pe 3:3

fools 1:7,29 5:12 Joh 3:20

23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

turn Isa 55:1-3,6,7 Jer 3:14 Eze 18:27-30 33:11 Ho 14:1 Ac 3:19 Ac 26:20

my reproof 1:25,30 6:23 10:17 12:1 29:1 Ps 145:1 Re 3:19

behold Isa 32:15 45:8 Joe 2:28 Zec 12:10 Lu 11:13 Joh 7:36,37 Ac 2:36-38 Re 3:16-18

24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

i have called Isa 50:2 65:12 66:4 Jer 7:13 Eze 8:18 Zec 7:11,12 Mt 22:5,6 23:37,38 Heb 12:25,26

stretched Ps 31:20 Ac 4:30 Ro 10:21

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

ye 1:30 2Ch 36:16 Ps 107:11 Lu 7:30

would 1:30 5:12 12:1 Ps 81:11

26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Jud 10:14; Ps 2:4; 37:13; Lu 14:24;

27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

your fear 3:25,26 10:24,25 Ps 69:22-28 Lu 21:26,34,35 1Th 5:3 Re 6:15-17

as a Ps 58:9 Isa 17:13 Na 1:3

distress Lu 21:23-25 Ro 2:9

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

shall they Ge 6:3 Job 27:9 35:12 Ps 18:41 Isa 1:15 Jer 11:11 14:12 Eze 8:18 Mic 3:4 Zec 7:13 Mt 7:22,23 25:10-12 Lu 13:25-28 Jas 4:3

they shall seek Ps 78:34-36 Ho 5:15 6:1-4

29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

that 1:22 5:12 6:23 Job 21:14,15 Ps 50:16,17 Isa 27:11 30:9-12 Joh 3:20 Ac 7:51-54

not Lu 10:42 Heb 11:25

30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

1:25 Ps 81:11 119:111,173 Jer 8:9 Lu 14:18-20

31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

14:14 22:8 Job 4:8 Isa 3:10,11 Jer 2:19 6:19 Ga 6:7,8

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

the turning 8:36 Joh 3:36 Heb 10:38,39 12:25

and the De 32:15 Ps 69:22 92:6,7 Lu 12:16-21 16:19-25 Heb 12:8 Jas 5:5

prosperity Jer 48:11,12

33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

whoso 8:32-35 9:11 Ps 25:12,13 81:13 Isa 48:18 55:3 Mt 17:5 Joh 10:27-29 1Pe 1:5

and shall 3:21-26 14:26 Ps 112:7 Isa 26:3 Lu 21:9,19 Ro 8:35-39