Daily Wisdom Plan

Wise people seek wisdom, and where better to look than in books about wisdom. Join us as we walk through the books of Psalms, Proverbs, and Song of Solomon.

Today, we are reading Proverbs 7, 8, 9.

Proverbs 7

7:1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
7:2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
7:3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
7:4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
7:6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7:7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
7:8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
7:9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
7:10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
7:11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
7:12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
7:13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
7:14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
7:15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
7:16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
7:17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
7:19For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
7:20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
7:21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
7:22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
7:23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
7:24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
7:25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
7:26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
7:27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 8

8:1Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
8:2She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
8:3She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
8:4Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
8:5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
8:6Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
8:7For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8:8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
8:9They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
8:10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
8:11For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
8:12I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
8:14Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
8:15By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
8:16By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
8:17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
8:18Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
8:19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
8:20I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
8:21That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
8:22The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
8:23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
8:24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
8:25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
8:26While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
8:27When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
8:28When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
8:29When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
8:30Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
8:31Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
8:32Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
8:33Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
8:34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
8:35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.
8:36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Proverbs 9

9:1Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
9:2She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.
9:3She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
9:4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
9:5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
9:7He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
9:8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
9:9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
9:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
9:11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
9:12If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
9:13A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
9:14For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
9:15To call passengers who go right on their ways:
9:16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
9:17Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
9:18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
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