{
    "translation": "King James Version",
    "abbreviation": "kjv",
    "lang": "en",
    "language": "English",
    "direction": "LTR",
    "encoding": "UTF-8",
    "book_nr": 20,
    "book_name": "Proverbs",
    "chapter": 1,
    "name": "Proverbs 1",
    "verses": [
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 1,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:1",
            "text": "The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 2,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:2",
            "text": "To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 3,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:3",
            "text": "To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 4,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:4",
            "text": "To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 5,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:5",
            "text": "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 6,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:6",
            "text": "To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 7,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:7",
            "text": "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 8,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:8",
            "text": "My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 9,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:9",
            "text": "For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 10,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:10",
            "text": "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 11,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:11",
            "text": "If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 12,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:12",
            "text": "Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 13,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:13",
            "text": "We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 14,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:14",
            "text": "Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 15,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:15",
            "text": "My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 16,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:16",
            "text": "For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 17,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:17",
            "text": "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 18,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:18",
            "text": "And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 19,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:19",
            "text": "So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 20,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:20",
            "text": "Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 21,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:21",
            "text": "She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 22,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:22",
            "text": "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 23,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:23",
            "text": "Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 24,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:24",
            "text": "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 25,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:25",
            "text": "But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 26,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:26",
            "text": "I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 27,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:27",
            "text": "When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 28,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:28",
            "text": "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 29,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:29",
            "text": "For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:"
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 30,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:30",
            "text": "They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 31,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:31",
            "text": "Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 32,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:32",
            "text": "For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 1,
            "verse": 33,
            "name": "Proverbs 1:33",
            "text": "But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. "
        }
    ]
}