{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/proverbs/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T09:23:53.044Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"To know wisdom, and instruction: To understand the words of prudence:  "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity: "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He shall understand a parable, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother : "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause: "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets: "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying: "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge? "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you: "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me: "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord, "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof. "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices. "},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. "},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 1 (DRB)","markdown":"[Proverbs 1](https://primebible.com/drb/proverbs/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/proverbs/1 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}