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_Someone suggested that a very nice "wisdom" gift might be Proverb # XX that corresponds to the "day" of your Special Celebration. We hope that you might find encouraging promises and wisdom principles that resonate within you. These wisdom couplets are brief hints and suggestions for living a nice, long, peaceful & intelligent life. A lot of people live by trial & error; unfortunately, the errors can be wasteful & costly in time, health and wealth. God's wisdom principles will help you make good choices, even better choices that will reduce errors and make a happier life as billions of people have discovered. Young men and women should also consider Proverb 31.
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Proverbs (Chapters 10-24)~ Wisdom For All People. Wisdom & Righteousness Can Be Learned At Any Age.
On Life and
Conduct
1 When
you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is
before you,
2 And
put a knife to your throat If you are a man of
great
appetite.
3 Do
not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive
food.
4 Do
not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your
consideration of
it.
5 When
you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For
wealth
certainly makes itself wings Like an
eagle that flies toward the
heavens.
6 Do
not eat the bread of a selfish man, Or desire his
delicacies;
7 For
as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, “Eat
and drink!” But his heart is not with you.
8 You
will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your
compliments.
9 Do
not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the
wisdom of your words.
10 Do
not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the
fatherless,
11 For
their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against
you.
12 Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to
words of knowledge.
13 Do
not hold back discipline from the child, Although you strike
him with the rod, he will not die.
14 You
shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from
Sheol.
15 My
son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be
glad;
16 And
my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is
right.
17 Do
not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of the LORD
always.
18 Surely there is a future, And your hope will not be
cut off.
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart
in the way.
20 Do
not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
21 For
the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And
drowsiness will clothe one with
rags.
22 Listen to your father who begot you, And do not
despise your mother when she is old.
23 Buy
truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and
instruction and understanding.
24 The
father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who sires
a wise son will be glad in him.
25 Let
your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who
gave birth to you.
26 Give me your heart, my son, And let your eyes
delight in my ways.
27 For
a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow
well.
28 Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the
faithless among men.
29 Who
has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has
complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has
redness of eyes?
30 Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to
taste mixed wine.
31 Do
not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the
cup, When it goes down smoothly;
32 At
the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a
viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will
utter perverse things.
34 And
you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the
sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a
mast.
35 “They struck me, but I did not
become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will
seek another drink.”
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