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Proverbs 1 thru 7.
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There are 31 so it's easy to read 1 every day.
Proverbs is the book of wisdom.
We All Need Wisdom.
God promises US in
James 1:5
If any of you need wisdom,
you should ask God,
and it will be given to you.
God is generous and won't correct you for asking.
So we begain in Proverbs 1 and go thru Proverbs 7.
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Purpose of Proverbs.
1The proverbs of Solomon, King David’s son, from Israel:
2Their purpose is to teach wisdom and discipline,
to help one understand wise sayings.
3They provide insightful instruction,
which is righteous, just, and full of integrity.
4They make the naive mature,
the young knowledgeable and discreet.
5The wise hear them and grow in wisdom;
those with understanding gain guidance.
6They help one understand proverbs and difficult sayings,
the words of the wise, and their puzzles.
7Wisdom begins with the fear of the LORD,
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Avoid evil associations
8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction;
don’t neglect your mother’s teaching;
9for they are a graceful wreath on your head,
and beads for your neck.
10My son, don’t let sinners entice you.
Don’t go
11when they say:
“Come with us.
Let’s set up a deadly ambush.
Let’s secretly wait for the innocent just for fun.
12Let’s swallow up the living like the grave—
whole, like those who go down into the pit.
13We’ll find all sorts of precious wealth;
we’ll fill our houses with plunder.
14Throw in your lot with us;
we’ll share our money. ”
15My son, don’t go on the path with them;
keep your feet from their way,
16because their feet run to evil;
they hurry to spill blood.
17It’s useless to cast a net
in the sight of a bird.
18But these sinners set up a deadly ambush;
they lie in wait for their own lives.
19These are the ways of all who seek unjust gain;
it costs them their lives.
Listen to “Woman Wisdom”
20Wisdom shouts in the street;
in the public square she raises her voice.
21Above the noisy crowd, she calls out.
At the entrances of the city gates, she has her say:
22“How long will you clueless people love your naïveté,
mockers hold their mocking dear,
and fools hate knowledge?
23You should respond when I correct you.
Look, I’ll pour out my spirit on you.
I’ll reveal my words to you.
24I invited you, but you rejected me;
I stretched out my hand to you,
but you paid no attention.
25You ignored all my advice,
and you didn’t want me to correct you.
26So I’ll laugh at your disaster;
I’ll make fun of you when dread comes over you,
27when terror hits you like a hurricane,
and your disaster comes in like a tornado,
when distress and oppression overcome you.
28Then they will call me, but I won’t answer;
they will seek me, but won’t find me
29because they hated knowledge
and didn’t choose the fear of the LORD.
30They didn’t want my advice;
they rejected all my corrections.
31They will eat from the fruit of their way,
and they’ll be full of their own schemes.
32The immature will die because they turn away;
smugness will destroy fools.
33Those who obey me will dwell securely,
untroubled by the dread of harm. ”
PROVERBS 2
Benefits of wisdom
1My son, accept my words
and store up my commands.
2Turn your ear toward wisdom,
and stretch your mind toward understanding.
3Call out for insight,
and cry aloud for understanding.
4Seek it like silver;
search for it like hidden treasure.
5Then you will understand the fear of the LORD,
and discover the knowledge of God.
6The LORD gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
7He reserves ability for those with integrity.
He is a shield for those who live a blameless life.
8He protects the paths of justice
and guards the way of those who are loyal to him.
9Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
as well as integrity, every good course.
10Wisdom will enter your mind,
and knowledge will fill you with delight.
11Discretion will guard you;
understanding will protect you.
12Wisdom will rescue you from the evil path,
from people who twist their words.
13They forsake the way of integrity
and go on obscure paths.
14They enjoy doing evil,
rejoicing in their twisted evil.
15Their paths are confused;
they get lost on their way.
16Wisdom will rescue you from the mysterious woman,
from the foreign woman with her slick words.
17She leaves behind the partner of her youth;
she even forgets her covenant with God.
18Her house sinks down to death,
and her paths go down to the shadowy dead.
19All those who go to her will never return;
they will never again reach the ways of the living.
20So you should stay on the path of good people,
guarding the road of the righteous.
21Those who have integrity will dwell in the land;
the innocent will remain in it.
22But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
and the treacherous will be ripped up.
PROVERBS 3
Trust in the LORD
1My son, don’t forget my instruction.
Let your heart guard my commands,
2because they will help you live a long time
and provide you with well-being.
3Don’t let loyalty and faithfulness leave you.
Bind them on your neck;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Then you will find favor and approval
in the eyes of God and humanity.
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart;
don’t rely on your own intelligence.
6Know him in all your paths,
and he will keep your ways straight.
7Don’t consider yourself wise.
Fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
8Then your body will be healthy
and your bones strengthened.
9Honor the LORD with your wealth
and with the first of all your crops.
10Then your barns will be filled with plenty,
and your vats will burst with wine.
11Don’t reject the instruction of the LORD, my son;
don’t despise his correction.
12The LORD loves those he corrects,
just like a father who treats his son with favor.
Value of wisdom
13Happy are those who find wisdom
and those who gain understanding.
14Her profit is better than silver,
and her gain better than gold.
15Her value exceeds pearls;
all you desire can’t compare with her.
16In her right hand is a long life;
in her left are wealth and honor.
17Her ways are pleasant;
all her paths are peaceful.
18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her;
those who hold her tight are happy.
19The LORD laid the foundations of the earth with wisdom,
establishing the heavens with understanding.
20With his knowledge, the watery depths burst open,
and the skies drop dew.
Integrity of wisdom
21My son, don’t let them slip from your eyes;
hold on to sound judgment and discretion.
22They will be life for your whole being,
and an ornament for your neck.
23Then you will walk safely on your path,
and your foot won’t stumble.
24If you lie down, you won’t be terrified.
When you lie down, your sleep will be pleasant.
25Don’t fear sudden terror
or the ruin that comes to the wicked.
26The LORD will be your confidence;
he will guard your feet from being snared.
27Don’t withhold good from someone who deserves it,
when it is in your power to do so.
28Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go and come back;
I’ll give it to you tomorrow, ” when you have it.
29Don’t plan to harm your neighbor
who trusts and lives near you.
30Don’t accuse anyone without reason,
when they haven’t harmed you.
31Don’t envy violent people
or choose any of their ways.
32Devious people are detestable to the LORD,
but the virtuous are his close friends.
33The LORD’s curse is on the house of the wicked,
but he blesses the home of the righteous.
34He mocks mockers,
but he shows favor to the humble.
35The wise gain respect,
but fools receive shame.
PROVERBS 4
Love wisdom
1Hear, children, fatherly instruction;
pay attention to gain understanding.
2I’ll teach you well.
Don’t abandon my instruction.
3When I was a son to my father,
tender and my mother’s favorite,
4he taught me and said to me:
“Let your heart hold on to my words:
Keep my commands and live.
5Get wisdom; get understanding.
Don’t forget and don’t turn away from my words.
6Don’t abandon her, and she will guard you.
Love her, and she will protect you.
7The beginning of wisdom:
Get wisdom!
Get understanding before anything else.
8Highly esteem her, and she will exalt you.
She will honor you if you embrace her.
9She will place a graceful wreath on your head;
she will give you a glorious crown. ”
Stay on the path of wisdom
10Listen, my son, and take in my speech,
then the years of your life will be many.
11I teach you the path of wisdom.
I lead you in straight courses.
12When you walk, you won’t be hindered;
when you run, you won’t stumble.
13Hold on to instruction; don’t slack off;
protect it, for it is your life.
14Don’t go on the way of the wicked;
don’t walk on the path of evil people.
15Avoid it! Don’t turn onto it;
stay off of it and keep going!
16They don’t sleep unless they do evil;
they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
17They eat the bread of evil,
and they drink the wine of violence.
18The way of the righteous is like morning light
that gets brighter and brighter till it is full day.
19The path of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they don’t know where they will stumble.
Be careful about what you say
20My son, pay attention to my words.
Bend your ear to my speech.
21Don’t let them slip from your sight.
Guard them in your mind.
22They are life to those who find them,
and healing for their entire body.
23More than anything you guard, protect your mind, for life flows from it.
24Have nothing to do with a corrupt mouth;
keep devious lips far from you.
25Focus your eyes straight ahead;
keep your gaze on what is in front of you.
26Watch your feet on the way,
and all your paths will be secure.
27Don’t deviate a bit to the right or the left;
turn your feet away from evil.
PROVERBS 5
Avoid the mysterious woman
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
Bend your ear to what I know,
2so you might remain discreet,
and your lips might guard knowledge.
3The lips of a mysterious woman drip honey,
and her tongue is smoother than oil,
4but in the end she is bitter as gall,
sharp as a double-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death;
her steps lead to the grave.
6She doesn’t stay on the way of life.
Her paths wander, but she doesn’t know it.
7Now sons, listen to me,
and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
8Stay on a path that is far from her;
don’t approach the entrance to her house.
9Otherwise, you will give your strength to others,
your years to a cruel person.
10Otherwise, strangers will sap your strength,
and your hard work will end up in a foreigner’s house.
11You will groan at the end
when your body and flesh are exhausted,
12and you say, “How I hated instruction!
How my heart despised correction!
13I didn’t listen to the voice of my instructor.
I didn’t obey my teacher.
14I’m on the brink of utter ruin
in the assembled community. ”
15Drink water from your own cistern,
gushing water from your own well.
16Should your fountains flood outside,
streams of water in the public squares?
17They are yours alone,
not for you as well as strangers.
18May your spring be blessed.
Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
19She is a lovely deer, a graceful doe.
Let her breasts intoxicate you all the time;
always be drunk on her love.
20Why, my son, should you lose your senses with a mysterious woman
and embrace the breasts of a foreign female?
21The LORD’s eyes watch over every person’s path,
observing all their ways.
22The wicked will be caught by their own evil acts,
grabbed by the ropes of their own sin.
23Those without instruction will die,
misled by their own stupidity.
PROVERBS 6
Wise advice
1My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor
or shake hands in agreement with a stranger,
2you will be trapped by your words;
you will be caught by your words.
3Do this, my son, to get out of it,
for you have come under the control of your neighbor.
So go, humble yourself, and pester your neighbor.
4Don’t give sleep to your eyes
or slumber to your eyelids.
5Get yourself free like a gazelle from a hunter,
like a bird from the hand of a fowler.
6Go to the ant, you lazy person;
observe its ways and grow wise.
7The ant has no commander, officer, or ruler.
8Even so, it gets its food in summer;
gathers its provisions at harvest.
9How long, lazy person, will you lie down?
When will you rise from your sleep?
10A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the arms to lie down—
11and poverty will come on you like a prowler,
destitution like a warrior.
12Worthless people and guilty people
go around with crooked talk.
13They wink their eyes, gesture with their feet,
and point with their fingers.
14Their hearts are corrupt and determined to do evil;
they create controversies all the time.
15Therefore, sudden disaster will come upon them;
they will be quickly broken beyond healing.
16There are six things that the LORD hates,
seven things detestable to him:
17snobbish eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that spill innocent blood,
18a heart set on wicked plans,
feet that run quickly to evil,
19a false witness who breathes lies,
and one who causes conflicts among relatives.
Danger of adultery
20My son, keep your father’s command;
don’t abandon your mother’s instruction.
21Bind them on your heart for all time;
fasten them around your neck.
22When you walk around, they will lead you;
when you lie down, they will protect you;
when you awake, they will occupy your attention.
23The commandment is a lamp and instruction a light;
corrective teaching is the path of life.
24They guard you from the evil woman,
from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.
25Don’t desire her beauty in secret;
don’t let her take you in with her eyelashes,
26for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread,
but a married woman hunts for a man’s very life.
27Can a man scoop fire into his lap
and his clothes not get burned?
28If a man walks on hot coals,
don’t his feet get burned?
29So is the man who approaches his neighbor’s wife;
anyone who touches her will be punished.
30People don’t despise a thief if he steals
to fill his starving stomach.
31But if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold;
he must give all the riches of his house.
32He who commits adultery is senseless.
Doing so, he destroys himself.
33He is wounded and disgraced.
His shame will never be wiped away.
34Jealousy makes a man rage;
he’ll show no mercy on his day of revenge.
35He won’t accept compensation;
he’ll refuse even a large bribe.
PROVERBS 7
Avoid loose women
1My son, keep my words;
store up my commands within you.
2Keep my commands and live,
and my instruction like the pupil of your eye.
3Bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister”;
call understanding “friend, ”
5so she might guard you against the mysterious woman,
from the foreign woman who flatters you.
6When from the window of my house,
from behind the screen, I gazed down,
7I looked among the naive young men
and noticed among the youth, one who had no sense.
8He was crossing the street at her corner
and walked down the path to her house
9in the early evening,
at the onset of night and darkness.
10All of a sudden a woman approaches him,
dressed like a prostitute and with a cunning mind.
11She is noisy and defiant;
her feet don’t stay long in her own house.
12She has one foot in the street, one foot in the public square.
She lies in wait at every corner.
13She grabs him and kisses him.
Her face is brazen as she speaks to him:
14“I’ve made a sacrifice of well-being;
today I fulfilled my solemn promises.
15So I’ve come out to meet you,
seeking you, and I have found you.
16I’ve spread my bed with luxurious covers,
with colored linens from Egypt.
17I’ve sprinkled my bed with myrrh,
aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come, let’s drink deep of love until morning;
let’s savor our lovemaking.
19For my husband isn’t home;
he’s gone far away.
20He took a pouch of money with him;
he won’t come home till full moon. ”
21She seduces him with all her talk.
She entices him with her flattery.
22He goes headlong after her,
like an ox to the slaughter,
like a deer leaping into a trap,
23until an arrow pierces his liver,
like a bird hurrying to the snare,
not aware that it will cost him his life.
24Now sons, listen to me,
and pay attention to my speech.
25Don’t turn your heart to her ways;
don’t wander down her paths.
26She has caused many corpses to fall;
she has killed many people.
27Her house is a path to the grave,
going down to the chambers of death.
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