THE WISDOM OF THE RIGHTEOUS

Proverbs 5 "My son, be attentive to MY WISDOM, incline your ear to MY UNDERSTANDING; that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge FOR THE LEEPS OF A LOOSE woman DRIP HONEY, and HER SPEECH is SMOOTHER that OIL; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as two-edged sword. HER FEET go down TO SHEOL; she does NOT take heed TO the path of LIFE; her ways wonder, and she does not know it."
"And now, O sons, listen to ME, and DO NOT DEPART FROM MY WORDS of MY MOUTH, keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house; lest you give your honor to others and your ears to the merciless; LEST the strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien; and AT the END of your LIFE you GROAN, when your FLESH AND BODY are CONSUMED, and you say, 'How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation,'"
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin. He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.
"Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well."
"Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?"
"Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love. Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?"
"For a MAN'S WAYS ARE BEFORE THE EYES OF THE LORD, and HE WATCHES ALL HIS PATHS."
Ecclesiastes 7: Do Not Take Everything For Granted.
A goo reputation is better than a fat bank account. Your death date tells more than your birth date. You learn more at a funeral than at a feast - after all, that is where we will end up. We might discover something from it. Crying is better than laughing. It blotches the face but it scours the heart. Endings are better than beginnings. Sticking to it is better than standing out.
Sages invest themselves in hurt and grieving. Fools waste their lives in fun and games. You will get more from the rebuke of a sage than from the song and dance of fools. The giggles of fools are like the cracking of twigs under the cooking pot, and like smoke.
Brutality stupefies even the wise and destroys the strongest heart. Do not be quick to fly off the handle. Anger boomerangs. You can spot a fool by the lumps on his head.
Do not always be asking, "Where are the good old days!" Wise folks do not questions like that.
Wisdom is better when it is paired with blessings, especially if you get both while you are still living. It double protection, wisdom and wealth! Plus this bonus: Wisdom energizes its owner.
Take a good look at GOD'S WORK. Who could simplify and reduce Creation's curves and angles to a plain straight line?
Job 31: What Can I Expect From God?
"I made a solemn pact with myself never to undress a girl with my eyes. If I have let myself be seduced by a woman and conspired to go to bed with her, fine, my wife has every right to go ahead and sleep with anyone she wants to. For disgusting behavior like that, I would deserve the worst punishment YOU could hand out. Adultery is a fire that burns the house down; I would not expect anything I count dear to survive it."
"Have I ever been unfair to my employees when they brought a complaint to me? What then will I do when GOD confronts me? When GOD examines my books, what can I say? Do not the same GOD who made me, make them? Are not we all made of the same stuff, equals before GOD?"
"Have I ignored the needs of the poor, turned my back on the indigent, taking care of my own needs and fed my own face while they languished? Was not my home always open to them? Were not they always welcome at my table?"
"Have I ever left a poor family shivering in the cold when they had no warm clothes? Did not the poor bless me when they saw mw coming, knowing I had brought coats from my closet?"
"If I have ever used my strength and influence to take advantage of the unfortunate, go ahead, break both my arms, cut off all my fingers!"
"THE FEAR OF GOD HAS KEPT ME FROM THESE THINGS -how else could I ever face HIM?