Proverbs Ch.1

Question 1

Verse 1

Answer 1

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

Question 2

Verse 2

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Verse 3

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Verse 4

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Verse 5

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Verse 6

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Verse 7

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Verse 8

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Verse 9

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Verse 10

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Verse 11

Answer 11

If they say, “Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Question 12

Verse 12

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Verse 13

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Verse 14

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Verse 15

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Verse 16

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Verse 17

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Verse 18

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Verse 19

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Verse 20

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Verse 21

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Verse 22

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Verse 23

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Verse 24

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Verse 25

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Verse 26

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Verse 27

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Verse 28

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Verse 29

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Verse 30

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Verse 31

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Verse 33

Answer 32

But whoso hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from the fear of evil."

Question 32

Verse 32

Answer 32

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