Proverbs a fountain of life index 1-9 chapters
I. WISDOM
A. What is Wisdom?
Pr 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Pr 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Pr 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path
Pr 2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Pr 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Pr 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Pr 4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Pr 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Pr 4:3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Pr 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Pr 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth
Pr 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding
Pr 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
B. Importance and Blessing of Wisdom
Pr 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Pr 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Pr 3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Pr 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Pr 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
Pr 3:23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
Pr 3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Pr 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
Pr 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Pr 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous. Pr 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Pr 3:34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Pr 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Pr 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Pr 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Pr 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Pr 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Pr 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Pr 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Pr 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Pr 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Pr 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
Pr 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.
Pr 7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Pr 7:12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Pr 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Pr 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Pr 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Pr 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Pr 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Pr 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Pr 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Pr 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
Pr 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Pr 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Pr 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Pr 7:24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Pr 7:25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Pr 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Pr 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
C. Types of Wisdom
Pr 1:4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Pr 4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
Pr 4:12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Pr 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Pr 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Pr 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Pr 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Pr 5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
D. Examples of Wisdom
Pr 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. Pr 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding
Pr 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Pr 2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Pr 2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Pr 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Pr 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Pr 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Pr 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Pr 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Pr 3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Pr 6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Pr 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Pr 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
Pr 6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Pr 6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Pr 6:20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Pr 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Pr 6:22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Pr 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Pr 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Pr 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Pr 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Pr 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Pr 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Pr 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
E. Personification of Wisdom
Pr 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Pr 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Pr 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Pr 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Pr 1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Pr 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Pr 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Pr 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Pr 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Pr 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives
Pr 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Pr 1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Pr 1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
Pr 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Pr 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Pr 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Pr 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Pr 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Pr 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Pr 1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Pr 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Pr 1:30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Pr 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Pr 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Pr 1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Pr 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Pr 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Pr 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Pr 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Pr 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Pr 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Pr 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Pr 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Pr 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Pr 4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Pr 4:9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Pr 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Pr 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Pr 8:1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice
Pr 8:2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
Pr 8:3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors
Pr 8:4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Pr 8:5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Pr 8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Pr 8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Pr 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Pr 8:9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Pr 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Pr 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Pr 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Pr 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Pr 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
Pr 8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Pr 8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
Pr 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Pr 8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Pr 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver
Pr 8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Pr 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
Pr 8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old
Pr 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was
Pr 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water
Pr 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth
Pr 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Pr 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Pr 8:28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
Pr 8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth
Pr 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Pr 8:31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
Pr 8:32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Pr 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Pr 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Pr 8:35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. Pr 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Pr 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Pr 9:2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Pr 9:3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Pr 9:4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Pr 9:5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Pr 9:11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. Pr 9:12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
F. How to Obtain Wisdom
Pr 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Pr 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Pr 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Pr 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Pr 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Pr 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Pr 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Pr 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Pr 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Pr 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Pr 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Pr 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Pr 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Pr 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Pr 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Pr 6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Pr 6:8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pr 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Pr 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Pr 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
G. Characteristics of a Fool
Pr 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Pr 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Pr 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Pr 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Pr 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Pr 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Pr 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Pr 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Pr 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Pr 3:28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
Pr 3:29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
Pr 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Pr 3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways
Pr 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Pr 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Pr 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Pr 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Pr 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Pr 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Pr 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: Pr 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Pr 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Pr 5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Pr 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Pr 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Pr 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Pr 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Pr 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Pr 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Pr 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Pr 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Pr 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Pr 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Pr 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Pr 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Pr 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Pr 6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Pr 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Pr 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Pr 6:13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
Pr 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Pr 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Pr 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pr 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pr 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pr 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Pr 6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Pr 6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Pr 6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Pr 6:29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Pr 6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Pr 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Pr 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Pr 6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Pr 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Pr 6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Pr 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Pr 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Pr 9:14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Pr 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Pr 9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Pr 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Pr 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
H. Characteristics of a Wise Man
Pr 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Pr 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Pr 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil
Pr 3:21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Pr 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Pr 4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Pr 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Pr 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Pr 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Pr 4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Pr 4:25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Pr 4:26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Pr 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
A. What is Wisdom?
Pr 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Pr 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Pr 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path
Pr 2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Pr 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Pr 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
Pr 4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Pr 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Pr 4:3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
Pr 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Pr 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth
Pr 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding
Pr 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
B. Importance and Blessing of Wisdom
Pr 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Pr 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Pr 3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Pr 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Pr 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
Pr 3:23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
Pr 3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
Pr 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
Pr 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Pr 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous. Pr 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Pr 3:34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
Pr 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Pr 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Pr 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Pr 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Pr 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Pr 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Pr 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Pr 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Pr 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Pr 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
Pr 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.
Pr 7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Pr 7:12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Pr 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Pr 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Pr 7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Pr 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Pr 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Pr 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Pr 7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Pr 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
Pr 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Pr 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Pr 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Pr 7:24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Pr 7:25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Pr 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Pr 7:27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
C. Types of Wisdom
Pr 1:4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Pr 4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
Pr 4:12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Pr 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Pr 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Pr 5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Pr 5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
Pr 5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
D. Examples of Wisdom
Pr 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. Pr 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding
Pr 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Pr 2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Pr 2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Pr 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Pr 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Pr 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Pr 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Pr 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Pr 3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Pr 6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Pr 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Pr 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
Pr 6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Pr 6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Pr 6:20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Pr 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Pr 6:22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Pr 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Pr 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Pr 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Pr 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Pr 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Pr 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Pr 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
E. Personification of Wisdom
Pr 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Pr 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Pr 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Pr 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Pr 1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Pr 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Pr 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Pr 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Pr 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Pr 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives
Pr 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Pr 1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Pr 1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
Pr 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Pr 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Pr 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Pr 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Pr 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Pr 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Pr 1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Pr 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Pr 1:30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Pr 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Pr 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Pr 1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Pr 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Pr 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
Pr 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Pr 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Pr 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Pr 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Pr 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Pr 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Pr 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Pr 4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Pr 4:9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Pr 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Pr 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Pr 8:1 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice
Pr 8:2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
Pr 8:3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors
Pr 8:4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Pr 8:5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Pr 8:6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Pr 8:7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Pr 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Pr 8:9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Pr 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Pr 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Pr 8:12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Pr 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Pr 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
Pr 8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Pr 8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
Pr 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Pr 8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Pr 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver
Pr 8:20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Pr 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
Pr 8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old
Pr 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was
Pr 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water
Pr 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth
Pr 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Pr 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
Pr 8:28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
Pr 8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth
Pr 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Pr 8:31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
Pr 8:32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Pr 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Pr 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Pr 8:35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. Pr 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Pr 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
Pr 9:2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
Pr 9:3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Pr 9:4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Pr 9:5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Pr 9:11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. Pr 9:12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
F. How to Obtain Wisdom
Pr 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Pr 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Pr 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Pr 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Pr 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Pr 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Pr 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Pr 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Pr 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Pr 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Pr 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Pr 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Pr 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Pr 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Pr 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Pr 6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Pr 6:8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pr 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Pr 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Pr 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
G. Characteristics of a Fool
Pr 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Pr 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Pr 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Pr 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Pr 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Pr 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Pr 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
Pr 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Pr 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Pr 3:28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
Pr 3:29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
Pr 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
Pr 3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways
Pr 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Pr 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Pr 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Pr 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Pr 5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Pr 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Pr 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: Pr 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Pr 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Pr 5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
Pr 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Pr 5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Pr 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Pr 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Pr 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Pr 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Pr 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Pr 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Pr 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Pr 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Pr 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Pr 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Pr 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Pr 6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Pr 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Pr 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Pr 6:13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
Pr 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Pr 6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Pr 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pr 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pr 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pr 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Pr 6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Pr 6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Pr 6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Pr 6:29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Pr 6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Pr 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Pr 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Pr 6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Pr 6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Pr 6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Pr 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Pr 9:13 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
Pr 9:14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Pr 9:15 To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Pr 9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Pr 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Pr 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
H. Characteristics of a Wise Man
Pr 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Pr 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
Pr 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil
Pr 3:21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Pr 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Pr 4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Pr 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Pr 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Pr 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Pr 4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Pr 4:25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Pr 4:26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Pr 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
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