C. Seek Wisdom 1:20-2:22
Pro 1:20
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:Pro 1:21
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,Pro 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?Pro 1:23
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.Pro 1:24
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;Pro 1:25
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:Pro 1:26
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;Pro 1:27
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.Pro 1:28
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:Pro 1:29
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:Pro 1:30
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.Pro 1:31
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.Pro 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.Pro 1:33
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.Pro 2:1
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;Pro 2:2
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;Pro 2:3
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;Pro 2:4
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;Pro 2:5
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.Pro 2:6
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.Pro 2:7
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.Pro 2:8
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.Pro 2:9
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.Pro 2:10
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;Pro 2:11
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:Pro 2:12
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;Pro 2:13
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;Pro 2:14
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;Pro 2:15
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:Pro 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;Pro 2:17
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.Pro 2:18
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.Pro 2:19
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.Pro 2:20
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.Pro 2:21
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.Pro 2:22
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.