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¶ The Prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, King of Israel,

To knowe wisedome and instruction, to perceiue the words of vnderstanding,

To receiue the instruction of wisdome, iustice, and iudgement & equitie,

1611 marginal noteHebr. equities.

A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:

To vnderstand a prouerbe, and the interpretation; the wordes of the wise, and their darke sayings.

1611 marginal noteOr, an eloquent speach.

¶ The feare of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.

1611 marginal noteOr, the principall part.

1611 marginal noteIob 28.28. psal. 111.10. prou.9.10.

My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

For they shall be an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke.

1611 marginal noteHebr. an adding.

Surely in vaine the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

1611 marginal noteHebr. in the eyes of euery thing that hath a wing.

So are the waies of euery one that is greedie of gaine: which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.