Monday, April 24, 2023

Today's thoughts on Proverbs 15

Proverbs 15 is hard for me to get a lot out of, I could only pick up bits and pieces of it. 

As far as I could go, 15 is about the wisdom of speech and also the wisdom of goodness. If you chose the path of righteousness, everything makes you happy and you'll feast even in the evil of the world because knowledge is food too (referring to the Gospel). I noticed that the "merry" heart in 15:13 is different than the "merry" heart in 15:15 probably a translation mistake. If that's the case then such is my take, bad heart could be "merry" as well.

So when a person is depleted of wisdom, criticizing him/her would bring only fights. For me debating is pleasant and nourishing therefore it is not "fights", but that's just me. Okhay so, there's a spectrum here, a person is not completely foolish not completely wise. If you see the light in their eyes you'd know that they're nourished by it. So we want criticism to rise to a higher plane, why would you stirred up strife when you could cater to the light of the eyes. 

But again as a wise person you should be able to control yourself too, if there were "fights" the one talking sh*t is probably to blame even when he means "well" but doesn't change the fact that if we attacked sound knowledge we were the fools and we were not being wise.

In the end of this post I repeat that I could only take so few out of this chapter, it's hard for me to make up better meanings out of them wisdom

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