Proverbs 1

Translation: ESV

The Beginning of Knowledge

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Date: September 16 2023
Inktober prompt: Book

1 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

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Date: October 23 2023
Inktober prompt: Rise

2 To know wisdom and instruction,

    to understand words of insight,

3 to receive instruction in wise dealing,

    in righteousness, justice, and equity;

4 to give prudence to the simple,

    knowledge and discretion to the youth—

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Date: October 132 2023
Inktober prompt: Castle

5 Let the wise hear and increase in learning,

    and the one who understands obtain guidance,

6 to understand a proverb and a saying,

    the words of the wise and their riddles.

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Date: July 23 2023
Inktober prompt: Stairs

7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;

    fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The Enticement of Sinners

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Date: June 22 2023
Inktober prompt: Satellite

8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction,

   and forsake not your mother's teaching,

9 for they are a graceful garland for your head

   and pendants for your neck.

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Date: October 1 2023
Inktober prompt: Dream

10 My son, if sinners entice you,

     do not consent.

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Date: February 6 2023
Inktober prompt: Rip

11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;

     let us ambush the innocent without reason;

12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive,

     and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

13 we shall find all precious goods,

     we shall fill our houses with plunder;

14 throw in your lot among us;

     we will all have one purse”—

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Date: July 15 2023
Inktober prompt: Hurt

15 my son, do not walk in the way with them;

     hold back your foot from their paths,

16 for their feet run to evil,

     and they make haste to shed blood.

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Date: June 19 2023
Inktober prompt: Hunter

17 For in vain is a net spread

     in the sight of any bird,

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Date: March 15 2023
Inktober prompt: Dig

18 but these men lie in wait for their own blood;

    they set an ambush for their own lives.

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Date: 24 April 2023
Inktober prompt: Hats

19 Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain;

     it takes away the life of its possessors.

The Call of Wisdom

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Date: January 29 2022
Inktober prompt: Outpost

20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street,

      in the markets she raises her voice;

21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;

     at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?

     How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing

     and fools hate knowledge?

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Date: March 12 2022
Inktober prompt: Storm

23 If you turn at my reproof,

behold, I will pour out my spirit to you;

    I will make my words known to you.

24 Because I have called and you refused to listen,

    have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,

25 because you have ignored all my counsel

    and would have none of my reproof,

26 I also will laugh at your calamity;

    I will mock when terror strikes you,

27 when terror strikes you like a storm

    and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,

    when distress and anguish come upon you.

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Date: June 24 2022
Inktober prompt: Dizzy

28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;

    they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

29 Because they hated knowledge

    and did not choose the fear of the Lord,

30 would have none of my counsel

    and despised all my reproof,

31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way,

    and have their fill of their own devices.

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Date: May 23 2023.
Inktober prompt: Prey

32 For the simple are killed by their turning away,

     and the complacency of fools destroys them;

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Date: January 11 2023
Inktober Prompt: Sleep

33 but whoever listens to me will dwell secure

     and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”

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