Proverbs 1:8-19
1599 Geneva Bible
8 My son, hear thy [a]father’s instruction, and forsake not thy [b]mother’s teaching.
9 For they shall be [c]a comely ornament unto thine head, and as chains for thy neck.
10 ¶ My son, [d]if sinners do entice thee, consent thou not.
11 If they say, Come with us, we will lay wait for [e]blood, and lie privily for the innocent without a cause:
12 We will swallow them up alive like a [f]grave, even whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in thy lot among us, we will all have one [g]purse:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them: refrain thy foot from their [h]path.
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Certainly as without cause the net is spread before the eyes of all that hath wing:
18 So they lay wait for blood, and lie privily for [i]their lives.
19 Such are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain: he would take away [j]the life of the owners thereof.
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- Proverbs 1:8 He speaketh this in the Name of God, which is the universal Father of all creatures, or in the name of the pastor of the Church, who is as a father.
- Proverbs 1:8 That is, of the Church, wherein the faithful are begotten by the incorruptible seed of God’s word.
- Proverbs 1:9 Hebrew, increase of grace.
- Proverbs 1:10 To wit, the wicked which have not the fear of God.
- Proverbs 1:11 He speaketh not only of the shedding of blood with hand, but of all crafty practices which tend to the detriment of our neighbor.
- Proverbs 1:12 As the grave is never satiated, so the avarice of the wicked and their cruelty hath none end.
- Proverbs 1:14 He showeth whereby the wicked are allured to join together, because they have every one part of the spoil of the innocent.
- Proverbs 1:15 That is, have nothing at all to do with them.
- Proverbs 1:18 He showeth that there is no cause to move these wicked to spoil the innocent, but their avarice and cruelty.
- Proverbs 1:19 Whereby he concludeth, that the covetous man is a murderer.
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