669 verses about Mind

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise”; but it was far from me.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.