What does Proverbs Chapter 1 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

The first Proverbs chapter heads the book’s purpose, avoiding evil and heeding Wisdom. These are Solomon son of David, king of Israel’s parables: learning wisdom, instruction and prudence, receiving doctrine, justice, judgment and equity, giving subtilty to little ones and knowledge to the young man. The wise shall hear and grow wiser; understanding people shall possess governments, understanding parables, interpretation, wise words and mysteries. Fear of the Lord begins wisdom; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The son is told to hear father’s instruction and not forsake mother’s law, a grace for the head and gold chain for the neck. If sinners entice, consent not. If they propose lying in wait for innocent blood without cause, swallowing alive like hell, filling houses with spoil and sharing one purse, do not walk their way; restrain feet from paths running to evil and blood. The net is vainly spread before winged creatures. They lie in wait for their own blood and deceive their own souls; covetous ways destroy possessors. Conditional teaching is not an observed robbery or a supplied criminal itinerary.

Wisdom speaks in streets, at the head of multitudes and city gates, challenging childishness, harmful desire and hatred of knowledge. Turn at reproof; she will utter her spirit and show words. She called and was refused, extended hand without regard, with counsel neglected and reproof despised. She will laugh at destruction and mock when feared calamity arrives like tempest with distress. Then they shall call without hearing and rise early without finding, because they hated instruction, lacked fear, accepted no counsel and despised reproof.

They shall eat fruit of their ways and be filled with devices. Little ones’ turning away shall kill them and fools’ prosperity destroy them; the hearer shall rest without terror and enjoy abundance without fear of evil. These are the attributed speech’s future warnings and promises, not a report of completed outcomes or an invented historical classroom.