Quotes about Wisdom
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 5:3
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
- Proverbs 5:4
She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
- Proverbs 5:6
So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
- Proverbs 5:7
Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
- Proverbs 5:8
lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
- Proverbs 5:9
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
- Proverbs 5:12
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
- Proverbs 5:13
I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
- Proverbs 5:14
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
- Proverbs 5:16
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- Proverbs 5:20
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
- Proverbs 5:23