Chapter 1
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
proverbs
10.1 25.1 1 Kings 4.31,32 Ecclesiastes 12.9 John 16.25
Solomon
2 Samuel 12.24,25 1 Kings 2.12 1 Chronicles 22.9 28.5 29.28
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
4.5-7 7.4 8.5 16.16 17.16 Deuteronomy 4.5,6 1 Kings 3.9-12 2 Timothy 3.15-17
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
receive
equity
Heb. equities.
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
subtilty
22,23 8.5 9.4-6 Psalms 19.7 119.130 Isaiah 35.8
to the
7.7-24 8.17,32 Psalms 34.11 119.9 Ecclesiastes 11.9,10 12.1 2 Timothy 2.22 Titus 2.6
discretion
or, advisement.
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
wise
9.9 12.1 Job 34.10,16,34 Psalms 119.98-100 1 Corinthians 10.15
a man
1 Samuel 25.32,33 2 Chronicles 25.16
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
a proverb
Matthew 13.10-17,51,52 Mark 4.11,34 Acts 8.30,31
the interpretation
or, an eloquent speech. the words.
dark
Psalms 49.4 78.2 Matthew 13.34,35 Hebrews 5.14 2 Peter 3.16
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
fear
9.10 Job 28.28 Psalms 111.10 112.1 Ecclesiastes 12.13
beginning
or, principal part. but.
22,29,30 5.12,13 15.5 18.2 John 3.18-21 Romans 1.28
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
My son
10,15 2.1 3.1 7.1 Matthew 9.2,22
hear
4.1-4 5.1,2 6.20 30.17 31.1 Leviticus 19.3 Deuteronomy 21.18-21 1 Samuel 2.25 2 Timothy 1.5
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
they
3.22 4.9 6.20,21 1 Timothy 2.9,10 1 Peter 3.3,4
an ornament
Heb. an adding.
Genesis 41.42 Song of Solomon 1.10 4.9 Isaiah 3.19 Ezekiel 16.11 Daniel 5.7,16,29
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
7.21-23 13.20 20.19 Genesis 39.7-13 Judges 16.16-21 Psalms 1.1 50.18 Romans 16.18 Ephesians 5.11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
let us lay
16 12.6 30.14 Psalms 56.6 64.5,6 Jeremiah 5.26 Micah 7.2 Acts 23.15 25.3
let us lurk
18 Psalms 10.8-10 17.12 35.7 Jeremiah 11.19 18.18-20 Matthew 26.3,4 John 15.25
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
swallow
Psalms 35.25 56.1,2 57.3 124.3 Jeremiah 51.34 Lamentations 2.5,16 Micah 3.2,3
as the
whole
Numbers 16.30-33 26.10 Psalms 28.1 143.7
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
19 Job 24.2,3 Isaiah 10.13,14 Jeremiah 22.16,17 Nahum 2.12 Haggai 2.9 Luke 12.15 1 Timothy 6.9,10 Revelation 18.9-16
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
walk
4.14,15 9.6 13.20 Psalms 1.1 26.4,5 2 Corinthians 6.17
refrain
4.27 5.8 Psalms 119.101 Jeremiah 14.10
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
4.16 6.18 Isaiah 59.7 Romans 3.5
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
in vain
7.23 Job 35.11 Isaiah 1.3 Jeremiah 8.7
sight of any bird
Heb. eyes of everything that hath a wing.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
5.22,23 9.17,18 28.17 Esther 7.10 Psalms 7.14-16 9.16 55.23 Matthew 27.4,5
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
every
15.27 23.3,4 2 Samuel 18.11-13 2 Kings 5.20-27 Jeremiah 22.17-19 Micah 2.1-3 Micah 3.10-12 Habakkuk 2.9 Acts 8.19,20 1 Timothy 3.3 6.9,10 James 5.1-4 2 Peter 2.3,14-16
taketh
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Wisdom
Heb. Wisdoms, that is, excellent wisdom.
Matthew 13.54 Luke 11.49 1 Corinthians 1.24,30 Colossians 2.3
crieth
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
9.3 Matthew 10.27 13.2 John 18.20 Acts 5.20
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
How
6.9 Exodus 10.3 16.28 Numbers 14.27 Matthew 17.17
ye simple
7.7 9.4-6,16-18 Psalms 94.8 Matthew 9.13 11.29,30 23.37 Luke 19.42 Revelation 22.17
the scorners
3.34 14.6 15.12 19.29 21.11 Job 34.7 Psalms 1.1 2 Peter 3.3
fools
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Turn
Isaiah 55.1-3,6,7 Jeremiah 3.14 Ezekiel 18.27-30 33.11 Hosea 14.1 Acts 3.19 Acts 26.20
my reproof
25,30 6.23 10.17 12.1 29.1 Psalms 145.1 Revelation 3.19
behold
Isaiah 32.15 45.8 Joel 2.28 Zechariah 12.10 Luke 11.13 John 7.36,37 Acts 2.36-38 Revelation 3.16-18
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
I have called
Isaiah 50.2 65.12 66.4 Jeremiah 7.13 Ezekiel 8.18 Zechariah 7.11,12 Matthew 22.5,6 Matthew 23.37,38 Hebrews 12.25,26
stretched
Psalms 31.20 Acts 4.30 Romans 10.21
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
ye
30 2 Chronicles 36.16 Psalms 107.11 Luke 7.30
would
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Judges 10.14 Psalms 2.4 37.13 Luke 14.24
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
your fear
3.25,26 10.24,25 Psalms 69.22-28 Luke 21.26,34,35 1 Thessalonians 5.3 Revelation 6.15-17
as a
Psalms 58.9 Isaiah 17.13 Nahum 1.3
distress
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
shall they
Genesis 6.3 Job 27.9 35.12 Psalms 18.41 Isaiah 1.15 Jeremiah 11.11 14.12 Ezekiel 8.18 Micah 3.4 Zechariah 7.13 Matthew 7.22,23 25.10-12 Luke 13.25-28 James 4.3
they shall seek
Psalms 78.34-36 Hosea 5.15 6.1-4
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
that
22 5.12 6.23 Job 21.14,15 Psalms 50.16,17 Isaiah 27.11 30.9-12 John 3.20 Acts 7.51-54
not
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
25 Psalms 81.11 119.111,173 Jeremiah 8.9 Luke 14.18-20
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
14.14 22.8 Job 4.8 Isaiah 3.10,11 Jeremiah 2.19 6.19 Galatians 6.7,8
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
the turning
8.36 John 3.36 Hebrews 10.38,39 12.25
and the
Deuteronomy 32.15-44 Psalms 69.22 92.6,7 Luke 12.16-21 16.19-25 Hebrews 12.8 James 5.5
prosperity
or, ease.
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
whoso
8.32-35 9.11 Psalms 25.12,13 81.13 Isaiah 48.18 55.3 Matthew 17.5 John 10.27-29 1 Peter 1.5
and shall
3.21-26 14.26 Psalms 112.7 Isaiah 26.3 Luke 21.9,19 Romans 8.35-39