Wednesday Night Bible Study Journal

Proverbs 9

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Personal Reflection:Which Proverb from this chapter stood out to you the most?

Describe what this Proverb means to you?

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With the Word Bible Commentary

Nehemiah lets the fear of the Lord guide his decision-making, resulting in justice and generosity. How have you seen justice and generosity operating within the body of believers? What specific steps could you take to demonstrate fairness and generosity in your key relationships with family and friends?

Exert from “With the Word Bible Commentary” by Warren Weirsbe

Used by permission from Thomas Nelson Publishers

PROVERBS 9Come and dine! You see two houses and hear

two invitations. Wisdom offers you a banquet of bread, meat, and wine; folly offers you stolen bread and water. Wisdom promises you life, but if you eat at folly’s table, you will die. Which house will you enter?

Come and learn! Scoffers know so much that nobody can teach them anything, but the wise learn from rebuke. You may not enjoy it when somebody reproves you, but it will do you good. (See Ps. 141:5.)

Come and live! Wisdom multiplies days (v. 11). Those who abuse their bodies with sin usually cut their lives short, but when you follow wisdom, you can add years to your life—and life to your years! God gives a fullness of experience to those who obey Him.

Rebuke. The way you respond to criticism and rebuke reveals the kind of person you are (Prov. 9:7–9). Scoffers will not listen to rebuke (Prov. 13:1) or love those who rebuke them (Prov. 15:12). The wise person knows that rebuke is evidence of love (Prov. 27:5) and will value it (Prov. 25:12) and gain understanding from it (Prov. 19:25). Ponder Proverbs 27:6.

Nehemiah lets the fear of the Lord guide his decision-making, resulting in justice and generosity. How have you seen justice and generosity operating within the body of believers? What specific steps could you take to demonstrate fairness and generosity in your key relationships with family and friends?

1 Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars;

2 She has slaughtered her meat,

She has mixed her wine,

She has also furnished her table.

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18 But he does not know that the dead are there,

That her guests are in the depths of hell.

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3 She has sent out her maidens,

She cries out from the highest places of the city,

4 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”

As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

15 To call to those who pass by,

Who go straight on their way:

16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here”;

And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

17 “Stolen water is sweet,

And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Nehemiah lets the fear of the Lord guide his decision-making, resulting in justice and generosity. How have you seen justice and generosity operating within the body of believers? What specific steps could you take to demonstrate fairness and generosity in your key relationships with family and friends?

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5 “Come, eat of my bread

And drink of the wine I have mixed.

6 Forsake foolishness and live,

And go in the way of understanding.

7 “He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself,

And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself.

12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,

And if you scoff, you will bear it alone.”

13 A foolish woman is clamorous;

She is simple, and knows nothing.

14 For she sits at the door of her house,

On a seat by the highest places of the city,

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8 Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you;

Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser;

Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,

And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

11 For by me your days will be multiplied,

And years of life will be added to you.