Posts with the tag “young”

Proverbs 8:17 "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me." Given his extensive knowledge of both romance and virtue, Solomon knew how many similarities the two shared. These...  Read More

Proverbs 7:13-20 "So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,  I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.  Therefore came I forth to meet thee, dili...  Read More

Proverbs 6:12-15 "A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he devis...  Read More

Proverbs 5:15-21 "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine ow...  Read More

Proverbs 5:5-6 "Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them." Although Solomon wasn’t a pr...  Read More

Proverbs 4:25-27 "Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.  Turn not to the right hand nor to th...  Read More

Proverbs 4:18-19 "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble." As we re...  Read More

Proverbs 1:18 "And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives."Solomon is almost done with his paternal preaching on problematic peer pressure in verse 18.  In previous v...  Read More

Proverbs 1:16 "For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood."Here in chapter one, Solomon spends as much as time as he does trying to persuade his son to choose his friends carefully becau...  Read More

Proverbs 1:14 "Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:"Early in the Book of Proverbs, Solomon is offering his young son and other readers the opportunity to learn how to recognize a dange...  Read More

Proverbs 1:13 "We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:"Solomon wrote his proverbs to help people, especially his young son.  In order for his readers to benefit from...  Read More

Proverbs 1:12 "Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:"In trying to help his son pay more attention to father and mother, Solomon highlights the dange...  Read More

Proverbs 1:10-11 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:"Starting in verse 10, Solo...  Read More

Proverbs 1:10  "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."Over the course of its thirty-one chapters, the Book of Proverbs will offer wisdom to men and women of all ages.  This book is a wealt...  Read More

Proverbs 1:4 "To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion."The fourth and final reason behind Solomon’s compilation of Proverbs is the first verse to officially identify ...  Read More