Proverbs 1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Proverbs 1

1 of all who are greedy for gain;

it takes away the life of its possessors.

The Call of Wisdom

20 Prov 8.1 Wisdom cries out in the street;

in the squares she raises her voice.

21At the busiest corner she cries out;

at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

22 vv 4, 29, 32; Ps 1.1“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?

How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing

and fools hate knowledge?

23 Joel 2.28 Give heed to my reproof;

I will pour out my thoughts to you;

I will make my words known to you.

24 Isa 65.12; Zech 7.11; Rom 10.21 Because I have called and you refused,

have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,

25 Ps 107.11; Prov 15.10; Lk 7.30 and because you have ignored all my counsel

and would have none of my reproof,

26 Ps 2.4; Prov 6.15; 10.24 I also will laugh at your calamity;

I will mock when panic strikes you,

27when panic strikes you like a storm

and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,

when distress and anguish come upon you.

28 Isa 1.15; Ezek 8.18; Mic 3.4; Zech 7.13 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;

they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

29Because they hated knowledge

and did not choose the fear of the Lord,

30 Ps 81.11 would have none of my counsel

and despised all my reproof,

31 Job 4.8; Prov 14.14; Isa 3.11; Jer 6.19 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way

and be sated with their own devices.

32 Jer 2.19 For waywardness kills the simple,

and the complacency of fools destroys them;

33 Ps 25.12 but those who listen to me will be secure

and will live at ease without dread of disaster.”