Proverbs 9:11-12 New International Version (NIV) For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
10: [As for] the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if [men should be] in strength, eighty years; and the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.
A life of obedience to God's instructions is a good life. It is marked by peace, joy, significance, and fellowship with the Lord. The person who chooses wisdom sets themselves on a path much more likely to involve both quantity of years and quality of life. Nothing else can compare to the life granted by godly wisdom.
Verse of the Day: Proverbs 19:11. A person's wisdom yields patience; it is to one's glory to overlook an offense. Wise people are patient when others act offensively towards them. They don't act or speak without thinking first. It doesn't mean they accept what is contrary to their values and beliefs.
Part of the wisdom of this proverb is to acknowledge that when someone is acting in a way that that we don't understand, we have to acknowledge that there may be something that is going on beneath the surface, in their emotions, that is bringing forth that behavior.
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. 21 The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
Our verse suggests it's okay to laugh and have some good feelings even when there's ache in my heart. While we may sometimes feel like we're “betraying” someone or something because we can laugh a little — this proverb tells us it's okay.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the ruin of his father: It is grieving to any parent to have a foolish son or daughter. This may run from grief to ruin as the grief destroys the father's health and life, or as the father ruins himself to rescue the foolish son.
17 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed. 17 If you help the poor, you are lending to the LORD — and he will repay you!
19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. 19 A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.
"Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to the old," says Job 12:12, reminding us of the value of speaking with older adults. 1 Kings 12:6 tells us that Solomon once sought the expertise of older men who helped him make important decisions about the kingdom of Israel.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 New Living Translation (NLT)
Wisdom and money can get you almost anything, but only wisdom can save your life.
Job 32:7-9 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom. ' But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand. It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
God Promises that He will see to it that you fulfil the number of your days (120 years) Exodus 23:26 “There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: THE NUMBER OF THY DAYS I WILL FULFILL.” Genesis 6:3 “And the LORD said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet HIS ...
He had the longest lifespan of all those given in the Bible, having died at the age of 969. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah.
2 Chronicles 22:2 gives his age as 42 years when his reign began in Jerusalem. Most scholars regard the 42 years in 2 Chronicles 22:2 as a copyist's error for an original 22 years. The age of 22 is also found in some Greek and Syrian versions of 2 Chronicles 22:2.
14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. 14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.
If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.
One example comes from Ephesians 4:32: “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God has forgiven you.” In this sentence, Paul has summarized the biblical message: that we are to be kind, compassionate and forgiving.
Proverbs 21:19 in Other Translations
19 It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman. 19 It's better to live alone in the desert than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.
Proverbs 27:13
Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger: If someone is a bad credit risk (foolish enough to be surety for a stranger), then we should hold a deposit as security against anything they owe to us (take the garment).
Proverbs 19:22 American Standard Version (ASV)
That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness; And a poor man is better than a liar.
Philippians 4:11–13
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. 4 He telleth the number of the astars; he calleth them all by their bnames. 5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his aunderstanding is infinite. 6 The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
Proverbs 14:12 KJV
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death.