Quotes About Choices

Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.

calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.

Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.

He who searches out good finds favor, but evil will come to him who seeks it.

He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.