Proverbs 1:1–9

Proverbs 1:1–94 matched frames1 pivot

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
- B 2-3 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
  - C 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
    - D 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
      - F 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation;
    - D' 6 the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
  - C' 7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge:
- B' 7 but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
A' 8-9 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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