Midrash sa Mga Kawikaan 1:33: Midrash Mishlei, Midrash Tanchuma, Devarim Rabbah & Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer

[13] (Proverbs 1:22): "'How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?' - These are the generation of the wilderness; 'and scoffers delight in their scoffing' - These are the congregation of Korah; 'and fools hate knowledge' - This refers to the wicked kingdom that did not accept the yoke of Heaven and the yoke of Torah. (Proverbs 1:23): 'Turn to my reproof' - These are Israel, whom Moses rebuked for the Golden Calf incident. 'Behold, I will pour out my spirit to you' - When he explained to them the Mishnah Torah. 'I will make my words known to you' - This teaches that he made known to them the particulars and explanations of the Torah, purity and impurity, prohibition and permission. (Proverbs 1:24): 'Because I have called and you refused' - This is the Holy One, Blessed be He, who sounded His voice to Israel, and they sinned against Him again, as it is said (Exodus 16:28): 'How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?' Another interpretation: 'Because I have called' - This is Moses, who was calling them words of Torah, and they were not believing, as it is said 'How long do you refuse?' Another interpretation: 'Because I have called' - This is Jeremiah, who was calling to Israel in Jerusalem to repent, and they did not believe him, as it is said (Zechariah 7:11): 'But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, etc.' 'I have stretched out my hand, and no one regards' - This is Gabriel, whose hand was stretched out over Jerusalem for six and a half years, with coals in his hand, and he wished to throw them in anger, but he waited for them to repent, and they did not heed. Another interpretation: 'I have stretched out my hand, and no one regards' - This is the Holy One, Blessed be He, whose hand was stretched out for six and a half years that they might return in repentance, but they did not return. Until when? Rabbi Jeremiah said: Until His anger returned, as it is said (Hosea 14:5): 'I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for My anger is turned away from him.' (Proverbs 1:25): 'But you have ignored all my counsel' - This is Moses, who was advising Israel, and they would turn away from him and cancel his counsel. 'And would have none of my reproof' - This is Jeremiah, that every reproof and reproof that he was reproving Israel, they were scorning him and ridiculing him. Jeremiah said to them: By your lives, a day is coming, just as you were ridiculing me and playing with me, to mock and ridicule you, from where? From what is written after it: (Proverbs 1:26): 'I also will laugh at your calamity,' and it says: (Proverbs 1:27): 'When your fear comes as destruction, etc.' (Proverbs 1:28): 'Then they will call me, but I will not answer' - And why all this? Rabbi Ishmael said: The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to them through my prophets (Isaiah 55:6): 'Seek the Lord while He may be found,' by your lives, a day will come when you will call Me, and I will not answer you, the proof is 'Then they will call me, but I will not answer,' and why all this - (Proverbs 1:29): 'Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.' (Proverbs 1:30): 'They would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof' - said the Holy One, Blessed be He: I said to you through my prophets (Ezekiel 33:11): 'Turn back, turn back from your evil ways,' by your lives, a day will come when I will punish you according to your ways, as it is said: (Proverbs 1:31): 'Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, etc.' And why all this: (Proverbs 1:32): 'For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, etc.' But whoever listens to my words of Torah, I will seat him in tranquility and security, as it is said: (Proverbs 1:33): 'But whoever listens to me will dwell securely.'"

Scripture itself declares: Happy is the man that hearkeneth unto Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting at the posts of My door (ibid. 8:34). This verse indicates that no harm will befall the person who hearkens unto the Torah, for it is written: Whosoever hearkeneth unto Me shall dwell securely and shall be quiet without fear of evil (ibid. 1:33). Furthermore it states: When thou walkest, it shall lead thee (ibid. 6:22).

The Holy One blessed be He said: ‘Heed Me, as there is no person who heeds Me and loses.’ The Rabbis say: You find there is one who heeds [his wife and loses, and one who heeds] his wife and gains. How so? Adam the first man heeded his wife and lost. From where is this derived? As it is stated: “And to Adam He said: Because you heeded the voice of your wife…[cursed is the ground on your account]” (Genesis 3:17). Rabbi Yitzḥak said: To what is the matter comparable? To a king who said to his servant: ‘Do not taste anything until I return from the bathhouse.’ His wife said to him: ‘Taste the cooked dish, so he will not need to seek to add salt or fish gravy.’ The king came and saw him licking his lips. The king said to him: ‘Did I not tell you do not eat, and yet you ate?’ He said to him: ‘My master, your maidservant gave it to me.’ The king said to him: ‘And you heeded my maidservant more than me?’ So, the Holy One blessed be He said to Adam: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it” (Genesis 2:17). What did Eve do? She fed him. Rabbi Avin said: She did not ask, but she wept and wailed to him with her voice, and he ate of it, as so it is written: “[Because you heeded] the voice of your wife.” “The words of your wife” is not written here, but rather, “the voice of your wife.” The Holy One blessed be He said to him: “Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat of it?” (Genesis 3:11). He said to Him: ‘My Master, Your maidservant gave it to me.’ From where is this derived? As it is stated: “The man said: The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate” (Genesis 3:12). He said to him: ‘And you heeded Eve more than Me?’ [Adam] was immediately expelled [from the Garden of Eden], as it is stated: “He banished the man; He stationed the cherubs east of the Garden of Eden, and the blade of the ever-turning sword, to guard the path of the tree of life” (Genesis 3:24). That is, he heeded his wife and lost.
There is one who heeded his wife and gained. This is Abraham. From where is this derived? As it is stated: “Sarai said to Abram: Please, behold, the Lord has kept me from bearing; please, consort with my maidservant; perhaps I shall be built through her. Abram heeded the voice of Sarai” (Genesis 16:2). Rabbi Shmuel bar Naḥman said: To what is the matter comparable? To one to whom a son was born. A certain astrologer saw him and said: ‘This lad is destined to be an arch-robber, his father must cast him away.’ His father heard and said: ‘Would I cast away my son?’ The father of that astrologer heard and said: ‘Everything that my son said to you, heed him.’ So, Sarah foresaw that Ishmael was taking to evil ways, and she would say to Abraham: “Banish this maidservant and her son” (Genesis 21:10) and it distressed him. The Holy One blessed be He appeared to [Abraham] and said to him: “Do not be distressed about the lad and about your maidservant; everything that Sarah says to you, heed her voice…” (Genesis 21:12). He heeded her voice and gained, as his descendants were considered [only those] descending from Isaac, as it is stated: “For it is through Isaac that descendants will be accounted to you” (Genesis 21:12). The Holy One blessed be He said: ‘If one who heeded his wife is so rewarded, one who heeds Me, all the more so.’ King Solomon came and articulated it: “But one who heeds me will reside securely and tranquilly, without fear of evil” (Proverbs 1:33).