55 Bible Verses about Proverbs

The legs of the lame were weak, and a parable in the mouth of the foolish.

To the overseer, to the sons of Korah: chanting. Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the World: Also ye sons of Adam, also ye sons of man together, ye rich and needy. My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart understanding.read more.
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my enigma upon the harp.

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel; To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment, and uprightness;read more.
To give craftiness to the simple, and to the youth, knowledge and meditation. The wise one will hear and he will add learning: and he understanding, shall obtain guidance: To understand a proverb, and an enigma: the words of the wise and their parables.

A thorn going up into the hand of a drunkard, a parable in the mouth of the foolish.

And God will give wisdom to Solomon, and understanding exceeding much, and breadth of heart as the sand which is upon the lip of the sea. And the wisdom of Solomon will be multiplied above the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and above all the wisdom of Egypt And he will be wise above all men; above Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Chalcol and Darda, sons of Mahol: and his name will be in all the nations round aboutread more.
And he will speak three thousand parables: and his songs will be five and a thousand. And he will speak concerning the woods, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop which went forth on the wall: and he will speak upon the cattle, and upon the birds, and upon the creeping things, and upon the fishes. And there will come from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who heard his wisdom.

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel;

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.

Also these the proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah transcribed.

The fear of Jehovah the instruction of wisdom; and before honor humility.

In the lips of him understanding, wisdom shall be found: and a rod for the back of him wanting heart

Pride coming, and dishonor will come: and wisdom with the humble.

According to the mouth of understanding a man shall be praised: and he being perverse of heart shall be for contempt

Only by pride contention will be given: but with those being advised, wisdom.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: and the folly of the foolish is deceit

The obtaining of wisdom how good above gold and the obtaining of understanding to be chosen above silver.

Deep waters are the words of man's mouth, the fountain of wisdom a gushing stream.

He obtaining a heart loved his soul: he watched understanding to find good.

No wisdom and no understanding, and no counsel against Jehovah.

Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom.

He trusting in his heart is foolish: and he going in wisdom shall be delivered.

The rod and reproofs will give wisdom: and the youth being left shames his mother.

Jehovah will not cause the soul of the just one to hunger: and he will thrust away the desire of the unjust

The labors of the just one, to life: the increase of the unjust to sin.

In the good of the just the city will exult: and in the perishing of the unjust it rejoiced.

A man shall not be prepared by injustice: and the root of the Just shall not be moved.

The light of the just shall rejoice: and the lamp of the unjust shall be quenched.

The unjust one shall be driven away in his evil: and the just one trusted in his death.

Old age a crown of glorying, shall be found in the way of justice.

The name of Jehovah a tower of strength: into it the just one shall run and be exalted.

Joy to the just one to do judgment: and destruction to those working iniquity.

A fountain trampled down, and a fountain corrupted, the just one turned aside before the unjust one.

In the increasing of the just the people will rejoice: and in the ruling of the unjust one the people will groan.

The blessing of Jehovah it will make rich, and it will not add pain with it

Wealth will not profit in the day of wrath, and justice will deliver from death.

Good is little with the fear of Jehovah more than much treasure and confusion with it

A Name to be chosen rather than much riches, and good grace rather than gold. The rich and poor one met together: Jehovah made them all.

Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom. Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.

Good the poor one going in his integrity above him perverting the ways, and he the rich.

A man loving wisdom will gladden his father: and he feeding harlots shall destroy riches.

In the multitude of words transgression shall not cease: and he withholding his lips is prudent

He wanting heart despised for his neighbor: and a man of understanding will be silent.

There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing. The lip of truth shall be prepared forever: and the tongue of falsehood while I shall wink.

The healing of the tongue the tree of life: and perverseness in it a breaking in the spirit

The perverse of heart shall not find good: and he turning about with his tongue shall fall into evil.

Death and life in the hand of the tongue: and they loving it shall eat its fruit

The making treasures by the tongue of falsehood is vanity scattered from those seeking death.

In slowness to anger shall the prince be persuaded, and the soft tongue shall break the bones.

He reproving a man, afterwards shall find favor more than he smoothing the tongue.

My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in. If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously; We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:read more.
We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil: Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all: My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths: For their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out blood: For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing. And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls. So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.

My son, thou shalt not forget my law, and thy heart shall guard my commands: For length of days and years of life, and peace they shall add to thee. Mercy and truth shall not forsake thee: bind them upon thy throat; write them upon the tablet of thy heart:read more.
And find grace and good understanding in the eyes of God and man. Trust to Jehovah with all thy heart; and thou shalt not lean to thine understanding. In all thy ways know him, and he will make straight thy paths. Thou shalt not be wise in thine eyes: fear Jehovah and depart from evil. It shall be healing to thy sinews, and moistening to thy bones. Honor Jehovah from thy substance, and from the first-fruits of all thy produce. And thy storehouses shall be filled with abundance, and thy wine-vats shall break forth with new wine.

My son, attend to my wisdom; incline thine ear to understanding: To watch meditation, and thy lips shall guard knowledge. For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil:read more.
And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps will hold fast to hades. Lest thou shalt make level the path of life, her tracks wavered; thou wilt not know. And now, ye sons, hear to me, and ye shall not depart from the words of my mouth. Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house: Lest thou shalt give thy strength to others, and thy years to the cruel: Lest strangers shall be filled with thy strength, and thy labors in the house of strangers; And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness, And thou saidst, How did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproofs And I heard not to the voice of him teaching me, and I inclined not mine ear to him instructing me. As I was almost in all evil in the midst of the convocation and the assembly. Drink water from thy pit, and flowing from the midst of thy well. Thy fountains shall be dispersed without; in the broad places streams of waters. They shall be to thee alone, and not strangers with thee. Thy fountain shall be blessed: and rejoice from the wife of thy youth. The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves. And wherefore, my son, wilt thou wander with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? For before the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of man, and he makes level all his tracks. His iniquities shall take the unjust one, and with the cords of his sins shall he be held fast. He shall die in not being instructed, and he shall wander in the multitude of his folly.

My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee. Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil of thine eyes. Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the tablet of thine heartread more.
Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding: To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.

To the leech two daughters: Give, give. Behold, three shall not satisfied; four shall not say, Wealth: Hades; and the closed womb; the earth not filled with water; and fire said not, Wealth.

Who shall find a woman of virtue? for her price is far above pearls. The heart of her husband trusted in her, and he shall not want spoil. She rewarded him good and not evil all the days of her life.read more.
She sought wool and flax, and she will work in delight with her hands. She was as the ships of the merchant; from far off she will bring her bread. She will rise while yet night, and she will give food to her house, and a portion to her girls. She purposed a field, and he will take it: from the fruit of her hands she planted a vineyard. She girded her loins with strength, and she will strengthen her arms. She tasted that her traffic is good: her light will not go out by night She sent forth her hands upon the spindle, and her hands take hold of the whirl. She spread forth her hands to the poor, and sent forth her hands to the needy. She will not fear for her house from snow, for all her house put on double. She made for herself coverings; byssus and purple her clothing. Her husband was known in the gates, in his sitting with the old men of the land. She made the under garment., and she will sell; and she gave a girdle to the Canaanite. Strength and ornament her clothing; and she will laugh to the last day. She opened her mouth in wisdom, and the law of mercy upon her tongue. She viewed the goings of her house, and the bread of sloth she will not eat Her sons rose up and they will call her happy; her husband, and he will praise her. Many daughters did virtue, and thou wentest up over all of them. Favor a falsehood, and beauty vanity: a woman fearing Jehovah, she shall be praised. Ye shall give her from the fruit of her hands, and her works shall praise her in the gates.