WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.860 The Proverbs Chapter 1 The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 00:30.300 --> 00:33.160 The words of the wise and their dark sayings. 00:34.200 --> 00:39.240 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and 00:39.240 --> 00:39.700 instruction. 00:40.720 --> 00:45.620 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy 00:45.620 --> 00:45.900 mother. 00:46.540 --> 00:51.100 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. 00:51.740 --> 00:56.320 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 00:56.320 --> 01:00.100 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood. 01:00.560 --> 01:03.080 Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause. 01:03.520 --> 01:07.540 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole as those that go down into the 01:07.540 --> 01:07.760 pit. 01:08.200 --> 01:10.080 We shall find all precious substance. 01:10.420 --> 01:12.180 We shall fill our houses with spoil. 01:12.780 --> 01:15.720 Cast in thy lot among us, let us all have one purse. 01:16.740 --> 01:20.020 My son, walk not thou in the way with them. 01:20.720 --> 01:22.480 Refrain thy foot from their path. 01:22.480 --> 01:26.060 For their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood. 01:27.000 --> 01:29.640 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 01:30.360 --> 01:32.200 And they lay wait for their own blood. 01:32.960 --> 01:34.940 They lurk privily for their own lives. 01:35.900 --> 01:40.140 So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain, which taketh away the life of the 01:40.140 --> 01:41.080 owners thereof. 01:42.140 --> 01:43.360 Wisdom crieth without. 01:43.840 --> 01:45.380 She uttereth her voice in the streets. 01:45.860 --> 01:49.680 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates. 01:49.680 --> 01:54.860 In the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, 01:55.080 --> 01:56.120 will ye love simplicity? 01:56.780 --> 02:00.680 And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge. 02:01.660 --> 02:03.100 Turn you at my reproof. 02:03.580 --> 02:06.580 Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you. 02:07.080 --> 02:09.080 I will make known my words unto you. 02:09.820 --> 02:14.700 Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man 02:14.700 --> 02:15.120 regarded. 02:15.880 --> 02:19.880 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof. 02:20.200 --> 02:22.500 I also will laugh at your calamity. 02:23.040 --> 02:24.820 I will mock when your fear cometh. 02:25.420 --> 02:28.640 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a 02:28.640 --> 02:33.560 whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon 02:33.560 --> 02:35.320 me, but I will not answer. 02:36.020 --> 02:39.140 They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. 02:39.860 --> 02:42.880 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord, 02:43.640 --> 02:45.060 they would none of my counsel. 02:45.500 --> 02:47.360 They despised all my reproof. 02:47.360 --> 02:52.200 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their 02:52.200 --> 02:52.800 own devices. 02:53.780 --> 02:57.880 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools 02:57.880 --> 02:58.980 shall destroy them. 02:59.860 --> 03:04.920 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.