Scripture References: Proverbs
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Note: short descriptions, not quotations, are provided for each passage. Be sure to examine the verses in context.
| Prov 1:2 | To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive words of understanding |
| Prov 1:7 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom |
| Prov 1:17 | Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird |
| Prov 1:20 | How long will...scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge? |
| Prov 1:29 | Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord |
| Prov 2:2 | Incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heard to understanding |
| Prov 2:3 | Cry out for discernment, lift up your voice for understanding |
| Prov 2:4 | If you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures |
| Prov 2:5 | Then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God |
| Prov 2:6 | For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding |
| Prov 2:12 | To deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things |
| Prov 3:7 | Fear the Lord and depart from evil...health to your flesh, strength to your bones |
| Prov 3:19 | The Lord by wisdom founded the earth, by understanding established heavens |
| Prov 3:20 | By His knowledge the depths were broken up, clouds drop down the dew |
| Prov 4:7 | Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore, get wisdom |
| Prov 4:18 | Path of the just like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter |
| Prov 4:26 | Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established |
| Prov 5:18 | As a loving deer and a graceful doe |
| Prov 5:21 | The ways of man are before the Lord; He ponders all his paths |
| Prov 6:5 | Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter, like a bird from the fowler |
| Prov 6:6-8 | Go to the ant, you sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise |
| Prov 7:22-23 | As an ox to the slaughter, as a bird to the snare |
| Prov 8:22-31 | The Lord possessed Me [Wisdom] at the beginning, before His works |
| Prov 8:23 | Before there was an earth |
| Prov 8:24 | Before there were depths, fountains of water |
| Prov 8:25 | Before the mountains and hills |
| Prov 8:26 | Before the earth and fields, and primal dust of the earth |
| Prov 8:27 | When He prepared heavens, drew a circle on face of the deep [See Job 26:10] |
| Prov 8:28 | When He established the clouds, strengthened the foundations of the deep |
| Prov 8:29 | When He assigned to the sea its limit, waters not transgress His command |
| Prov 8:30 | The I was beside Him as a Master Craftsman, and I was daily His delight |
| Prov 8:31 | Rejoicing in His inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of men |
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| Prov 11:22 | As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, a lovely woman without discretion |
| Prov 11:30 | The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life |
| Prov 12:10 | The righteous man regards the life of his animal |
| Prov 12:27 | The sluggard does not roast his prey |
| Prov 13:23 | Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor |
| Prov 14:4 | Where no oxen are, the manger is clean |
| Prov 15:4 | A wholesome tongue is a tree of life |
| Prov 16:4 | The Lord has made all for Himself, even the wicked for the day of evil |
| Prov 16:9 | A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps |
| Prov 16:17 | The highway of the upright is to depart from evil |
| Prov 16:24 | Pleasant words like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to bones |
| Prov 16:25 | There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death |
| Prov 17:5 | He who mocks the poor reproaches his Maker |
| Prov 17:12 | Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool |
| Prov 17:22 | Merry heart does good like medicine; broken spirit dries the bones |
| Prov 18:4 | Words of a man’s heart = deep waters; wellspring of wisdom a brook |
| Prov 18:15 | The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge; ear of the wise |
| Prov 19:12 | Kings’ wrath like roaring of a lion, favor like dew on the grass (20:2) |
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| Prov 20:2 | Wrath of king like roaring of a lion (19:12) |
| Prov 20:12 | Hearing ear and seeing eye, the Lord has made them both |
| Prov 20:27 | Spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all inner depths |
| Prov 20:29 | Glory of young men is their strength; splendor of old men is gray head |
| Prov 21:19 | Better to dwell in the wilderness than with contentious angry woman |
| Prov 22:2 | Rich and poor have this in common: the Lord is the Maker of them all |
| Prov 22:12 | Eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, overthrows work of the faithless |
| Prov 22:13 | Sluggard says “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!” (26:13) |
| Prov 22:17 | Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, apply your heart to knowledge |
| Prov 22:18 | For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, fixed on your lips |
| Prov 22:19 | So that you may trust in the Lord, I have instructed you today |
| Prov 22:20 | Have I not written to you excellent things of counsel and knowledge, |
| Prov 22:21 | That I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth |
| Prov 22:21 | That you may answer words of truth to those who send to you? |
| Prov 23:5 | Riches make themselves wings...like an eagle toward heaven |
| Prov 23:9 | Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom |
| Prov 23:12 | Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to words of knowledge |
| Prov 24:5 | A wise man is strong, and a man of understanding increases strength |
| Prov 25:3 | As the heavens for height and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings |
| Prov 25:11 | A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold [apricots] in settings of silver |
| Prov 25:13 | Like the cold of snow in time of harvest, is a faithful messenger |
| Prov 25:14 | Like clouds and wind without rain = he who boasts falsely |
| Prov 25:23 | The north wind brings rain, and backbiting tongue an angry face |
| Prov 26:1 | As snow in summer and rain in harvest, honor not fitting for a fool |
| Prov 26:2 | Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, an undeserved curse |
| Prov 26:3 | Whip for the horse, bridle for the donkey, whip for back of fools |
| Prov 26:10 | The great God who formed everything gives the fool his hire, transgressor his wages |
| Prov 26:13 | Sluggard says, “There is a lion in the streets!” (22:13) |
| Prov 27:8 | Like a bird that wanders from its nest, a man who wanders from his place |
| Prov 27:15 | Continual dripping on a rainy day and contentious woman alike |
| Prov 27:25 | When hay is removed and tender grass shows itself, mountain herbs gathered |
| Prov 27:26 | The lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field |
| Prov 27:27 | You shall have enough goat’s milk for your food and for your household |
| Prov 28:1 | The righteous are as bold as a lion |
| Prov 28:15 | Like a roaring lion and a charging bear is a wicked ruler over poor people |
| Prov 29:13 | Poor man and oppressor common: Lord gives light to eyes of both |
| Prov 30:4 | [Agur] Who has ascended into heaven or descended? |
| Prov 30:4 | Who has gathered the wind in His fists? bound the waters in a garment? |
| Prov 30:4 | Who established all the ends of the earth? What is His name or Son’s name, if you know? |
| Prov 30:15 | The leech has two daughters, Give and Give |
| Prov 30:15b-16 | Four things never satisfied: grave, barren womb, earth and water [flood], fire |
| Prov 30:18-19 | Four things too wonderful: eagle in air, serpent on rock, ship on sea, man with maid |
| Prov 30:24-28 | Four things little but wise: ant, coney [pica], locusts, spider [or lizard] |
| Prov 30:29-31 | Four things stately: lion, greyhound, male goat, king |