The implication is that if you do not find wisdom, then your future can be cut off and your hope will be crushed. Life is a series of choice

We suffer in our day from a high number of parents who want to be friends of their children rather than parents. This proverb demands that p

Solomon is trying to paint a picture in our minds of what will happen to a person who lets a stranger come into their life and dominate thei

What Solomon also seems to be saying is that there is almost always a gift or reward that is more valuable than the expectation. So if you h

This is an interesting proverb because it talks about what really happens behind the scenes in business. Everyone wants to proclaim that the

It is not common for a woman to be able to escape the gravity of her emotional circumstances. When she does this, then she is considered pru

When the inner man becomes weak or weary or afflicted with the weakness of the outer man, this can be handled by the inner man. It is unders

When a wise person sees a disagreement coming that they cannot win nor has no easy resolution, then they abandon that topic. There is no poi

The wise person drills into the anger of the leader and brings peace. Sometimes even the leader has not clearly thought through their expect

This is so obvious in our day and age. It can be revealed by the questions: What are you reading? What are you watching? We have a whole soc

The word translated backslider is the Hebrew word sug which means to turn back, to be turned, go back, turn away. Thus the translators used

If we are to become wise, one of the first steps is to start avoiding the snares or traps that will destroy life.

Solomon sums up the two sources of a good life in this proverb: what you say and what you do. This is short and sweet and true. If you bludg

Solomon is helping us understand in this proverb two things: the need to get outside wisdom and counsel, and the balance between keeping eve

All of us have foolishness as a part of who we are which is why it is best not to keep talking because eventually we betray our own selfishn

Lady Wisdom is a personification of wisdom in and through those who embrace her. The woman of folly is an actual woman who sells her body to

Sound wisdom could be the input you get from the counsel and/or it could be talking to people who have gone down the roads that you are thin

I have heard this kind of twisted logic coming from those involved in sexual sin. They do not understand that God is not the author of sin.

This is the type of person that Solomon is trying to give us insight into – the person who lives outside of God's moral boundary structu

This is the Hebrew word ra which means evil, distress, misery. The idea here is the calamity and misery that comes from violating God's