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Question: What is the famous phrase in Proverbs 1:7 that serves as the "beginning of knowledge"?
Answer: The fear of the Lord.
Answer: The heart.
Q: The seduced man is compared to an animal being led to slaughter. What kind of animal is it?
A: An ox (Proverbs 7:22)
Q: What covers all wrongs, according to Proverbs 10:12?
A: Love
According to Proverbs 13:24, what happens to a father who withholds discipline from his son?
He hates his son
Question: According to Proverbs 1:32, what will eventually destroy the simple and the foolish?
Answer: Their own complacency or waywardness
Question: Solomon describes the speech of the adulterous woman as being smoother than what?
Answer: Oil
Q: Wisdom has built her house and hewn out how many pillars for it?
A: Seven pillars (Proverbs 9:1). [1]
Q: The mouth of the righteous is compared to what in Proverbs 10:11?
A: A fountain of life.
What is the food of the unfaithful?
Violence
Question: Proverbs 3:13-15 states that gaining wisdom is better than obtaining silver, gold, and what other precious gemstone?
Answer: Rubies.
Question: The sluggard is told to consider the ways of which insect to learn wisdom and prepare for the future?
Answer: The Ant
Q: Wisdom states that her fruit is better than gold, even "fine gold," and her revenue than what other precious material?
A: Choice silver (Proverbs 8:19).
Q: Proverbs 11:2 states that when pride comes, what follows?
A: Disgrace (or shame).
a gentle answer turns away wrath, but what do harsh words do?
They stir up anger
Question: In Proverbs 3:5-6, which famous verse instructs us to acknowledge God in all our ways, what are we told to "lean not" on?
Answer: Our own understanding. [1, 2]
Question: Proverbs 6:16-19 lists things the Lord detests. What is the very first one mentioned?
Answer: Haughty Eyes or a Proud look
Q: In Proverbs 7, what is the young man described as lacking?
A: Understanding (Proverbs 7:7). [1]
Q: A beautiful woman who lacks discretion is compared to what in an animal's snout?
A: A gold ring
Proverbs 15:33 notes that the fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, and what comes before honor?
Humility
Question: Wisdom acts as a guard, delivering a person from the "way of evil" and from what kind of men?
Answer: Men who speak perverse or crooked words
Answer: They cannot sleep (they are kept awake unless they have made someone stumble). [1]
Q: What famous proverb is declared in Proverbs 9:10?
A: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding". [1]
Q: Rash or reckless words are compared to what weapon in Proverbs 12:18?
A sword
Proverbs 14:30 states that a sound heart is life to the body, but what does envy do to the bones?
It rots them