Proverbs Chapter 1

Proverbs 1 KJV

1. The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

2. To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

3. To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

4. To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

5. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

6. To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; [1] the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

[1] Note that “interpretation” was denied to the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican hierarchy more than 400 years before Moses was born (Gen. 40:8; Dan. 2:19-22; Luke 24:45). Interpretations do not belong to the Catholic Church; they never have and they never will. That’s something they stole from God (Gen. 40:8, stated by Joseph more than 1,600 years before the birth of Christ).

7. ¶ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: [a] but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

[a] Job 28:28; Psa. 111:10; Prov. 9:10, 8:12, 15:32.

8. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

9. For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

10. ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

11. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

12. Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14. Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

15. My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily [b] for their own lives.

[b] “Privily” (צפן), archaic English for “secretly,”  “privately.”

19. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

20. ¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: [c]

[c] Luke 11:49; Matt. 11:16-19.

21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

23. Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words [d] unto you.

[d] “Words” (plural), not the Neo-orthodox “preserved Word of God” (see notes on Psa. 12:7; Prov. 30:5-6).

24. ¶ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; [e]

[e] Rom. 10:20-21; Isa. 66:4.

25. But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; [f]

[f] Psa. 2:4.

27. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. [g]

[g] Prov. 13:13.

28. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; [h] they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

[h] Mic. 3:4.

29. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: [i]

[i] Vs. 7.

30. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. [j]

[j] Vss. 30-33 refer to Jesus Christ (see note on Prov. 8:22).

31. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

32. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. [k]

[k] Cf. Psa. 73:3.

33. But whoso hearkeneth unto me [2] shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

[2] Although Solomon personifies “wisdom” as a woman (vss. 20-21), what she says is equated with God’s words. Check out the cross references to verses 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, and 30; notice that everything “wisdom” says is what God does.

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Note on Psa. 12:7 KJV

Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them [2] from this generation for ever.

[2] Verses 6-7 prove that the doctrine of the preservation of the “words” (plural) of God is just as important as the doctrine of the verbal, plenary inspiration of the words (plural) of God. Quite naturally, there is a 100% cooperative, ecumenical lineup against these  verses by every major Christian institution of higher learning and every modern translation on the market. To abort this promise that God would preserve His “words” (so you would have them), the scholars violate all Hebrew texts and translate the word “them” as “us” so you will skip the antecedent in verse 6 (“the words of the LORD”) and go to verse 5 for the words “poor” and “needy.” That way, they don’t have to worry about God preserving His words, so they can replace them with their own words.

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Notes on Prov. 30:5-6 KJV

5. Every word of God [1] is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. [2]

[1] Notice the phrase “word of God” used immediately after the question “what is his son’s name” (vs. 4). It’s the title of Jesus Christ (Rev. 19:13; 1 John 5:7; John 1:1, 14).

[2] “Every word” that God put out is “pure” (here), “true” (Psa. 119:160), “tried” (2 Sam. 22:31), alive (Heb. 4:12), preserved eternally (Psa. 12:7), and “a shield” (here) to those that believe it.

6. Add thou not unto his words, [3] lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

[3] Cf. Psalm 12:6-7. The term “word of God” (small “w,” vs. 5) is interpreted by the Holy Spirit here to mean a collection of “words” (plural) that have been written (Deut. 4:36, 5:22; Prov. 22:21; Jer. 23:22; John 3:34, 5:47, 8:47, 14:23, 17:8; Rom. 10:18; Rev. 22:19). Only one “church” kept his word (Rev. 3:8), and it wasn’t the first church (Ephesus) — the early church.

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Note on Prov. 8:22 KJV

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. [4]

[4] Verses like this one are what led Origen, Arius, Athanasius, John Calvin, and the Council of Nicea (A.D. 325) to get all torn up arguing over whether Jesus Christ was a “begotten Son” or a “created God.” The verse is not a doctrinal dissertation on the Trinity. (For a related discussion of the religious insanity on both sides, obtain The Other Side of Calvinism by Laurence Vance).

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