The Cry For Wisdom

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Proverbs 1:1-33 KJV [Male Vocal] [1] The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; [2] To know wisdom and instruction; To perceive the words of understanding; [3] To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, and judgment, and equity; [4] To give subtilty to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion. [5] A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; And a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: [6] To understand a proverb, 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 the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: [9] For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck. [10] My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. [11] If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: [12] Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; And whole, as those that go down into the pit: [13] We shall find all precious substance, We shall fill our houses with spoil: [14] Cast in thy lot among us; Let us all have one purse: [15] My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path: [16] For their feet run to evil, And make haste to shed blood. [17] Surely in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird. [18] And they lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives. [19] So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; Which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. [Female Vocal] [20] Wisdom crieth without; She uttereth her voice in the streets: [21] She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: In the city she uttereth her words, saying, [22] How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge? [23] Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. [24] Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; [25] But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: [26] I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; [27] When your fear cometh as desolation, And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish cometh upon you. [28] Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: [29] For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of the LORD: [30] They would none of my counsel: They despised all my reproof. [31] Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. [32] For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. [33] But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, And shall be quiet from fear of evil.