Proverbs 14:16

Proverbs Of Solomon

¹⁵ The simple will believe every word, but the clever will consider his step. ¹⁶ The wise is cautious and turns from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is confident. ¹⁷ He who is short of {temper} will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated.

Foolish Man

Wise Man

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Proverbs 22:3

The clever sees danger and hides, but the simple go on and suffer.

Proverbs 3:7

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Yahweh and retreat from evil.

Genesis 33:9

Then Esau said, "{I have enough} my brother; {keep what you have}."

Genesis 42:18

On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live; I fear God.

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "Thus may the gods do [to me], and may they add [to it], surely at this time tomorrow I will make your life as the life of one of them!"

1 Kings 20:10-11

Then Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, "Thus may the gods do to me and thus may they add if the dust of Samaria is sufficient for the hollow of a hand for all of the people who are at my feet."

1 Kings 20:18

Then he said, "If they have come out for peace, seize them alive; and if they have come out for war, seize them alive."

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Job 28:28

And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord [is] wisdom, and to depart from evil [is] understanding.'"

Job 31:21-23

if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,

Psalm 34:14

Turn from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 119:120

My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.

Proverbs 7:22

He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,

Proverbs 16:6

By loyalty and faithfulness, iniquity will be covered over, and by fear of Yahweh {one turns} from evil.

Proverbs 16:17

The highway of the upright, it turns from evil, he who guards himself keeps his way.

Proverbs 28:14

Happy is the person who fears continuously, but he who is stubborn of heart, will fall into calamity.

Proverbs 29:9

[If] a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, then there is rankling and ridicule, but there is no relief.

Ecclesiastes 10:13

He begins by saying what is foolish and ends by uttering what is wicked delusion.

Mark 6:17-19

For Herod himself had sent [and] arrested John and bound him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.

Mark 6:24-25

And she went out [and] said to her mother, "What should I ask for?" And she said, "The head of John the baptizer."

John 9:40

[Some] of the Pharisees who were with him heard these [things] and said to him, "We are not also blind, [are we]?"

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Abstain from every form of evil.