Proverbs 29:3

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “It’s not wrong,” is a partner with a destroyer.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.” ’ ”

He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs numbered one thousand five.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’ ”

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh today, who has given to David a wise son to rule over this great people.”

Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them.

He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.