Proverbs 1

Question 1

Proverbs 1:1

Answer 1

The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

Question 2

Proverbs 1:2

Answer 2

To know wisdom, and instruction:

Question 3

Proverbs 1:3

Answer 3

To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

Question 4

Proverbs 1:4

Answer 4

To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.

Question 5

Proverbs 1:5

Answer 5

A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments.

Question 6

Proverbs 1:6

Answer 6

He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.

Question 7

Proverbs 1:7

Answer 7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Question 8

Proverbs 1:8

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Proverbs 1:9

Answer 9

That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.

Question 10

Proverbs 1:10

Answer 10

My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.

Question 11

Proverbs 1:11

Answer 11

If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

Question 12

Proverbs 1:12

Answer 12

Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

Question 13

Proverbs 1:13

Answer 13

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Question 14

Proverbs 1:14

Answer 14

Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.

Question 15

Proverbs 1:15

Answer 15

My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.

Question 16

Proverbs 1:16

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Proverbs 1:17

Answer 17

But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.

Question 18

Proverbs 1:18

Answer 18

And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.

Question 19

Proverbs 1:19

Answer 19

So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Question 20

Proverbs 1:20

Answer 20

Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Question 21

Proverbs 1:21

Answer 21

At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:

Question 22

Proverbs 1:22

Answer 22

O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?

Question 23

Proverbs 1:23

Answer 23

Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Question 24

Proverbs 1:24

Answer 24

Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.

Question 25

Proverbs 1:25

Answer 25

You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

Question 26

Proverbs 1:26

Answer 26

I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

Question 27

Proverbs 1:27

Answer 27

When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:

Question 28

Proverbs 1:28

Answer 28

Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:

Question 29

Proverbs 1:29

Answer 29

Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,

Question 30

Proverbs 1:30

Answer 30

Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

Question 31

Proverbs 1:31

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Proverbs 1:32

Answer 32

The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Question 33

Proverbs 1:33

Answer 33

But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.