Posts with the tag “fool”

Proverbs 12:18 "There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health." It should not surprise anyone that a man gifted with words addressed our words quite freque...  Read More

Proverbs 10:4-5 "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that cau...  Read More

Proverbs 10:1 "The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother." The next fifteen chapters are further sayings of Solomon, but different in s...  Read More

Proverbs 1:33 "But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."The final verse of Solomon’s first chapter of proverbs concludes a fourteen-verse literary masterp...  Read More

Proverbs 1:31 "Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."In his letter to the Galatian believers, Paul said, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: fo...  Read More

Proverbs 1:24-27 "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at...  Read More

Prov. 1:22 "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?"Attempting to gain and keep his young son’s attention, Solomon chos...  Read More