{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Proverbs",
 "chapter": 1,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:"
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:"
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,"
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?"
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;"
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:"
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;"
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:"
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:"
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."
  }
 ],
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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}