Proverbs

Proverbs 1 - Prologue, Warnings against Evil Companions, The Call of Wisdom

For learning about wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of insight, 3 for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness,...

My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your...

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; 2 for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare...

Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain[a] insight; 2 for I give you good precepts: do not...

My child, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, 2 so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard...

My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to another,[a] 2 you are snared by the utterance of...

My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you; 2 keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your...

Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? 2 On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her...

Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn her seven pillars. 2 She has slaughtered her animals, she has mixed her wine, she has also set...

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief. 2 Treasures gained by wickedness do...

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but an accurate weight is his delight. 2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but wisdom...

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid. 2 The good obtain favor from the Lord, but those...

A wise child loves discipline,[a] but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. 2 From the fruit of their words good persons eat good things,...

The wise woman[a] builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands. 2 Those who walk uprightly fear the Lord, but one...

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. 2 The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge,[a] but the mouths of fools...

The plans of the mind belong to mortals, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. 2 All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes,...

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. 2 A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts...

The one who lives alone is self-indulgent, showing contempt for all who have sound judgment.[a] 2 A fool takes no pleasure in...

Better the poor walking in integrity than one perverse of speech who is a fool. 2 Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves...

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise. 2 The dread anger of a king is like the growling...

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