From the Life Application Study Bible:| PROVERBS | |||
| Wisdom and Foolishness. The wise and the foolish are often contrasted in Proverbs. The characteristics, reputation, and results of each are worth knowing if wisdom is our goal. | |||
| The Wise | The Foolish | ||
| Characteristics | Give encouragement | Lack common sense | 10:21 |
| Enjoy living wisely | Enjoy foolishness | 10:23 | |
| Consider their steps | Gullible | 14:15 | |
| Avoid the wise | 15:12 | ||
| Hungry for knowledge | Feed on trash of foolishness | 15:12 | |
| Value wisdom above riches | 16:16 | ||
| Respond to correction | Do not respond to punishment | 17:10 | |
| Pursue wisdom | Pursue illusive dreams | 17:24 | |
| Blame failure on God | 19:3 | ||
| Profit from correction | An example to others | 19:25 | |
| Proud and arrogant | 21:24 | ||
| Despise wise advice | 23:9 | ||
| Make truth useless | 26:7 | ||
| Repeat their folly | 26:11 | ||
| Trust in wisdom | Trust in themselves | 28:26 | |
| Control their anger | Unleash their anger | 29:11 | |
| Reputation | Crowned with knowledge | Clothed with foolishness | 14:18 |
| Cause quarrels | 22:10 | ||
| Receive no honor | 26:1 | ||
| Calm anger | Stir up anger | 29:8 | |
| Results | Stay on right paths | Enjoy the wrong paths | 15:21 |
| Lash out when discovered in folly | 17:12 | ||
| Endangered by their words | 18:6,7 | ||
| Their wisdom conquers others’ strength | 21:22 | ||
| Avoid wicked paths | Walk a treacherous road | 22:5 | |
| Grow stronger | 24:5 | ||
| Will never be chosen as leaders | 24:7 | ||
| Must be guided by hardship | 26:3 | ||
| Persist in foolishness | 27:22 | ||
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