{"product_id":"2940148923411","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs","description":"THE BOOK OF PROVERBS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty\u003cbr\u003esentences: regulating the morals of men: and directing them to wisdom\u003cbr\u003eand virtue. And these sentences are also called PARABLES, because great\u003cbr\u003etruths are often couched in them under certain figures and similitudes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProverbs Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe use and end of the proverbs. An exhortation to flee the company of\u003cbr\u003ethe wicked: and to hearken to the voice of wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:1. The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:2. To know wisdom, and instruction:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:3. To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction\u003cbr\u003eof doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:4. To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:5. A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that\u003cbr\u003eunderstandeth shall possess governments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:6. He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of\u003cbr\u003ethe wise, and their mysterious sayings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise\u003cbr\u003ewisdom and instruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:8. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law\u003cbr\u003eof thy mother:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:9. That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy\u003cbr\u003eneck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:10. My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:11. If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let\u003cbr\u003eus hide snares for the innocent without cause:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:12. Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth\u003cbr\u003edown into the pit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses\u003cbr\u003ewith spoils.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:14. Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:15. My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their\u003cbr\u003epaths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:17. But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have\u003cbr\u003ewings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:18. And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise\u003cbr\u003edeceits against their own souls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:19. So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the\u003cbr\u003epossessors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:20. Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:21. At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the\u003cbr\u003egates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:22. O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet\u003cbr\u003ethose things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate\u003cbr\u003eknowledge?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:23. Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and\u003cbr\u003ewill shew you my words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:24. Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and\u003cbr\u003ethere was none that regarded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:25. You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my\u003cbr\u003ereprehensions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:26. I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that\u003cbr\u003eshall come to you which you feared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:27. When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a\u003cbr\u003etempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon\u003cbr\u003eyou:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:28. Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise\u003cbr\u003ein the morning, and shall not find me:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:29. Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of\u003cbr\u003ethe Lord,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:30. Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:31. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be\u003cbr\u003efilled with their own devices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:32. The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the\u003cbr\u003eprosperity of fools shall destroy them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:33. But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall\u003cbr\u003eenjoy abundance, without fear of evils.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111678787824,"sku":"2940148923411","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148923411_p0.jpg?v=1763716208","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148923411","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}