Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
- Proverbs 3: 5-6
Above all else, guard your heart,
for it is the wellspring of life.
- Proverbs 4:23
Let your eyes look straight ahead,
fix your gaze directly before you.
Make level paths for your feet
and take only ways that are firm.
Do not swerve to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.
- Proverbs 4:23,25-27
My son, if you have put up security
for your neighbor,
if you have struck hands in pledge
for another,
if you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared by the words of your mouth,
then do this, my son, to free yourself,
since you have fallen into your
neighbor’s hands:
Go and humble yourself;
press your plea with your neighbor!
Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand
of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
- Proverbs 6:1-5
The fear of the LORD
is the beginning of wisdom,
and knowledge of the Holy One
is understanding.
- Proverbs 9:10
The wealth of the rich is their fortified city
- Proverbs 10:15, 18:10
The wise woman builds her house,
but with her own hands the foolish one
tears hers down.
- Proverbs 14:1
A man lacking in judgment strikes hands
in pledge
and puts up security for his neighbor.
- Proverbs 17:18
The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is servant to the lender.
- Proverbs 22:7
Do not be a man who strikes hands in pledge
or puts up security for debts
- Proverbs 22:26
The prudent see danger and take refuge,
but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
- Proverbs 27:12
Fear of man will prove to be a snare,
but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.
- Proverbs 29:25
