Proverbs Topics Wisdom - A Topical Outline for Bible students and Pastors by Dr. Grant Hodges - Grace Baptist Church, Lebanon Indiana 46052

NIV
1:1 - The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
1:2 - for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight,
1:3 - for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair;
1:4 - for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young,
1:5 - let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance-,
1:6 - for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
1:7 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
1:20 - Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
1:21 - at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
1:22 - "How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
1:23 - If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
1:24 - But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
1:25 - since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke;
1:26 - I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you-,
1:27 - when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
1:28 - "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,
1:29 - Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord.
1:30 - since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke.
1:31 - they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
1:32 - For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
1:33 - but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
2:1 - My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
2:2 - turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding;
2:3 - and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding;
2:4 - and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure;
2:5 - then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
2:6 - For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
2:7 - He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
2:8 - for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
2:9 - Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
2:10 - For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
2:11 - Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you,
2:12 - Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse;
2:13 - who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways;
2:14 - who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;
2:15 - whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways;
2:16 - It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words;
2:17 - who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God;
2:20 - Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
2:21 - For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
2:22 - but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
3:7 - Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.
3:8 - This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
3:13 - Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding.
3:14 - for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold.
3:15 - She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.
3:16 - Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
3:17 - Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace.
3:18 - She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed.
3:35 - The wise inherit honor, but fools he holds up to shame.
4:5 - Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or swerve from them.
4:6 - Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.
4:7 - Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.
4:8 - Esteem her, and she will exalt you; embrace her, and she will honor you.
4:9 - She will set a garland of grace on your head and present you with a crown of splendor."
7:4 - Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your kinsman;
8:1 - Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?
8:2 - On the heights along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
8:3 - beside the gates leading into the city, at the entrances, she cries aloud:
8:4 - "To you, O men, I call out; I raise my voice to all mankind."
8:5 - You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, gain understanding.
8:6 - Listen, for I have worthy things to say; I open my lips to speak what is right.
8:7 - My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness.
8:8 - All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse.
8:9 - To the discerning all of them are right; they are faultless to those who have knowledge.
8:10 - Choose my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.
8:11 - for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
8:12 - "I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence; I possess knowledge and discretion."
8:13 - To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.
8:14 - Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have understanding and power.
8:15 - By me kings reign and rulers make laws that are just.
8:16 - by me princes govern, and all nobles who rule on earth.
8:17 - I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
8:18 - With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.
8:19 - My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver.
8:20 - I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
8:21 - bestowing wealth on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
8:22 - "The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old."
8:23 - I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began.
8:24 - When there were no oceans, I was given birth, when there were no springs abounding with water;
8:25 - before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth,
8:26 - before he made the earth or its fields or any of the dust of the world..
8:27 - I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
8:28 - when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
8:29 - when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
8:30 - Then I was the craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
8:31 - rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.
8:32 - "Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways."
8:33 - Listen to my instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.
8:34 - Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.
8:35 - "For whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord.
8:36 - But whoever fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death."
9:1 - Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars.
9:2 - She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
9:3 - She has sent out her maids, and she calls from the highest point of the city.
9:4 - "Let all who are simple come in here!" she says to those who lack judgment."
9:5 - "Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed."
9:8 - Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you.
9:9 - Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning.
9:12 - If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
14:24 - The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly.
14:33 - Wisdom reposes in the heart of the discerning and even among fools she lets herself be known.
16:16 - How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver!
18:1 - An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends; he defies all sound judgment.
18:4 - The words of a man's mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
18:13 - He who answers before listening-- that is his folly and his shame.
19:8 - He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who cherishes understanding prospers.
21:22 - A wise man attacks the city of the mighty and pulls down the stronghold in which they trust.
24:13 - Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
24:14 - Know also that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you find it, there is a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
26:7 - Like a lame man's legs that hang limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
26:9 - Like a thornbush in a drunkard's hand is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
26:16 - The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.
26:17 - Like one who seizes a dog by the ears is a passer-by who meddles in a quarrel not his own.
27:8 - Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
28:11 - A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has discernment sees through him.
29:9 - If a wise man goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.
29:11 - A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

NASB
1:1 - The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
1:2 - To know wisdom and instruction, to discern the sayings of understanding,
1:3 - To receive instruction in wise behavior, righteousness, justice and equity;
1:4 - To give prudence to the naive, to the youth knowledge and discretion,
1:5 - A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
1:6 - To understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.
1:7 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1:20 - Wisdom shouts in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
1:21 - At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:
1:22 - "How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded? and scoffers delight themselves in scoffing and fools hate knowledge?"
1:23 - "Turn to my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you."
1:24 - "Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;"
1:25 - And you neglected all my counsel and did not want my reproof;
1:26 - I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes,
1:27 - When your dread comes like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
1:28 - "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me,
1:29 - Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD."
1:30 - "They would not accept my counsel, they spurned all my reproof."
1:31 - "So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be satiated with their own devices."
1:32 - "For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them."
1:33 - "But he who listens to me shall live securely and will be at ease from the dread of evil."
2:1 - My son, if you will receive my words and treasure my commandments within you,
2:2 - Make your ear attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding;
2:3 - For if you cry for discernment, lift your voice for understanding;
2:4 - If you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures;
2:5 - Then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
2:6 - For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
2:7 - He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
2:8 - Guarding the paths of justice, and He preserves the way of His godly ones.
2:9 - Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity and every good course.
2:10 - For wisdom will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
2:11 - Discretion will guard you, understanding will watch over you,
2:12 - To deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things;
2:13 - From those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14 - Who delight in doing evil ;and rejoice in the perversity of evil;
2:15 - Whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
2:16 - To deliver you from the strange woman, from the adulteress who flatters with her words;
2:17 - That leaves the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
2:20 - So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
2:21 - For the upright will live in the land and the blameless will remain in it;
2:22 - But the wicked will be cut off from the land and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
3:7 - Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
3:8 - It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
3:13 - How blessed is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding.
3:14 - For her profit is better than the profit of silver and her gain better than fine gold.
3:15 - She is more precious than jewels; And nothing you desire compares with her.
3:16 - Long life is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.
3:17 - Her ways are pleasant ways and all her paths are peace.
3:18 - She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who hold her fast.
3:35 - The wise will inherit honor, but fools display dishonor.
4:5 - Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding! Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
4:6 - "Do not forsake her, and she will guard you; Love her, and she will watch over you."
4:7 - "The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire wisdom; And with all your acquiring, get understanding"
4:8 - "Prize her, and she will exalt you; She will honor you if you embrace her."
4:9 - "She will place on your head a garland of grace; She will present you with a crown of beauty."
7:4 - Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your intimate friend;
8:1 - Does not wisdom call, and understanding lift up her voice?
8:2 - On top of the heights beside the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
8:3 - Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, at the entrance of the doors, she cries out:
8:4 - "To you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men."
8:5 - "O naive ones, understand prudence; And, O fools, understand wisdom."
8:6 - "Listen, for I will speak noble things; And the opening of my lips will reveal right things."
8:7 - "For my mouth will utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips."
8:8 - "All the utterances of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverted in them."
8:9 - "They are all straightforward to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge."
8:10 - "Take my instruction and not silver, and knowledge rather than choicest gold."
8:11 - "For wisdom is better than jewels; And all desirable things cannot compare with her."
8:12 - "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion."
8:13 - "The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverted mouth, I hate."
8:14 - "Counsel is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding, power is mine."
8:15 - "By me kings reign, and rulers decree justice."
8:16 - "By me princes rule, and nobles, all who judge rightly."
8:17 - "I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me."
8:18 - "Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness."
8:19 - "My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, and my yield better than choicest silver."
8:20 - "I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice,"
8:21 - To endow those who love me with wealth, that I may fill their treasuries.
8:22 - "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old.
8:23 - "From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth."
8:24 - "When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water."
8:25 - "Before the mountains were settled, before the hills I was brought forth;
8:26 - While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, nor the first dust of the world."
8:27 - When He established the heavens, I was there, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
8:28 - When He made firm the skies above, when the springs of the deep became fixed,
8:29 - When He set for the sea its boundary so that the water would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth;
8:30 - Then I was beside Him, as a master workman; And I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him,
8:31 - Rejoicing in the world, His earth, and having my delight in the sons of men.
8:32 - "Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, for blessed are they who keep my ways."
8:33 - "Heed instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it."
8:34 - "Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts."
8:35 - "For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD."
8:36 - "But he who sins against me injures himself; all those who hate me love death."
9:1 - Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars;
9:2 - She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine; She has also set her table;
9:3 - She has sent out her maidens, she calls from the tops of the heights of the city:
9:4 - "Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!" to him who lacks understanding she says,
9:5 - "Come, eat of my food and drink of the wine I have mixed."
9:8 - Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you, reprove a wise man and he will love you.
9:9 - Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.
9:12 - If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
14:24 - The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools is foolishness.
14:33 - Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, but in the hearts of fools it is made known.
16:16 - How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding is to be chosen above silver.
18:1 - He who separates himself seeks his own desire, he quarrels against all sound wisdom.
18:4 - The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; The fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
18:13 - He who gives an answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.
19:8 - He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good.
21:22 - A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.
24:13 - My son, eat honey, for it is good, yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
24:14 - Know that wisdom is thus for your soul; If you find it, then there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
26:7 - Like the legs which are useless to the lame, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
26:9 - Like a thorn which falls into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
26:16 - The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can give a discreet answer.
26:17 - Like one who takes a dog by the ears is he who passes by and meddles with strife not belonging to him.
27:8 - Like a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.
28:11 - The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding sees through him.
29:9 - When a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, the foolish man either rages or laughs, and there is no rest.
29:11 - A fool always loses his temper, but a wise man holds it back.

KJV
1:1 - The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
1:2 - To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
1:3 - To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
1:4 - To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
1:5 - A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
1:6 - To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
1:7 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1:20 - Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
1:21 - She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
1:22 - How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
1:23 - Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
1:24 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
1:25 - But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
1:26 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
1:27 - When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
1:28 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
1:29 - For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
1:30 - They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
1:31 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
1:32 - For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
1:33 - But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
2:1 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
2:2 - So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
2:3 - Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
2:4 - If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
2:5 - Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
2:6 - For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
2:7 - He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
2:8 - He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints
2:8 - Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
2:10 - When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
2:11 - Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
2:12 - To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
2:13 - Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14 - Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
2:15 - Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
2:16 - To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
2:17 - Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
2:20 - That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
2:21 - For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
2:22 - But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
3:7 - Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
3:8 - It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
3:13 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
3:14 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
3:15 - She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
3:16 - Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
3:17 - Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
3:18 - She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
3:35 - The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
4:5 - Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
4:6 - Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
4:7 - Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
4:8 - Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
4:9 - She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
7:4 - Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
8:1 - Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
8:2 - She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
8:3 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
8:4 - Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
8:5 - O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
8:6 - Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
8:7 - For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8:8 - All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
8:9 - They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
8:10 - Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
8:11 - For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
8:12 - I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
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.
8:14 - Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
8:15 - By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
8:16 - By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
8:17 - I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
8:18 - Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
8:19 - My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
8:20 - I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
8:21 - That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
8:22 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
8:23 - I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
8:24 - When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
8:25 - Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
8:26 - While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
8:27 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
8:28 - When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
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:
8:30 - Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
8:31 - Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
8:32 - Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
8:33 - Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
8:34 - Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
8:35 - For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
8:36 - But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
9:1 - Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
9:2 - She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
9:3 - She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
9:4 - Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
9:5 - Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
9:8 - Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9:9 - Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
9:12 - If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
14:24 - The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
14:33 - Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
16:16 - How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
18:1 - Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
18:4 - The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
18:13 - He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
19:8 - He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
21:22 - A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
24:13 - My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
24:14 - So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
26:7 - The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
26:9 - As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
26:16 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
26:17 - He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
27:8 - As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
28:11 - The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
29:9 - If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.
29:11 - A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.