The document discusses the importance of choosing wise companions and avoiding those who mock or scorn wisdom. It provides several passages from Proverbs that warn against spending time with fools and mockers and encourage walking with the wise. Those who heed wisdom will prosper like a tree planted by water, bearing fruit continually without worry in difficult times.

1. Oh, the joys of those who do no follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers. But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do.

2. Who we spend time with matters....

3. Who we spend time with matters....

4. Proverbs 7:7 I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who lacked judgment.

5. Proverbs 8:5 You who are simple, gain prudence….

6. Proverbs 9:6 Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.

7. Proverbs 14:15 A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps.

8. Proverbs 14:18 The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

9. Proverbs 27:12 The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.

10. Who we spend time with matters....

11. Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

12. Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

13. Proverbs 13:20 He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

14. Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears the LORD and shuns evil, but a fool is hotheaded and reckless.

15. Proverbs 15:5 A fool spurns his father's discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.

16. Proverbs 17:12 Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

17. Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

18. Who we spend time with matters....

19. Proverbs 9:7 "Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse .

20. Proverbs 15:12 A mocker resents correction; he will not consult the wise.

21. Proverbs 21:24 The proud and arrogant man-"Mocker" is his name; he behaves with overweening pride.

22. Proverbs 22:10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended .

23. Proverbs 29:8 Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

24. Proverbs 13:1 A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

25. Who we spend time with matters....

26. Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous nourish many.....

27. Who we spend time with matters....

28. But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."