Quotes About Consequences

If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.

For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:

He who plots evil will be called a schemer.

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?

Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;

I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.

Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down.

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

do not bring hastily to court. Otherwise, what will you do in the end when your neighbor puts you to shame?

lest the one who hears may disgrace you, and your infamy never go away.

Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.

As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!