Beginning Knowledge
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
To know wisdom and instruction,
To understand words of insight;
For helping of your perception,
In doing the things that are right.
To receive instruction to deal,
In righteousness and in justice;
For the wisdom that you will feel,
Of an equity as righteous.
To give prudence to the simple,
Knowledge and discretion of youth;
To understand of the Gospel,
Able to learn what is the truth.
Let the wise hear to gain learning,
Understand to obtain guidance;
For the wisdom that is earning,
In helping with an abidance.
To understand of a proverb,
The words of the wise to spread out;
Interpretation of the Word,
Gives wisdom for leaving no doubt.
Beginning of knowledge is fear,
As wisdom is despised by fools;
Blocking their ears as not to hear,
Of what the Lord has given rules.
Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer
About this poem
Love Learning Proverbs 1:2–7
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Written on February 06, 2022
Submitted by richards.77936 on February 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
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Words | 172 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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