Are You Sure You Know What Tomorrow Bring III

Friday, September 2, 2022

11 Become wise, dear child, and make me happy;

    then nothing the world throws my way will upset me.

12 A prudent person sees trouble coming and ducks;

    a simpleton walks in blindly and is clobbered.

13 Hold tight to collateral on any loan to a stranger;

    be wary of accepting what a transient has pawned.

14 If you wake your friend in the early morning

    by shouting, “Rise and shine!”

It will sound to him

    more like a curse than a blessing.

15-16 A nagging spouse is like

    the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet;

You can’t turn it off,

    and you can’t get away from it.

-Proverbs 27:11-16 The Message

11 Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad,

    that I may answer him who reproaches me.

12 The prudent sees danger and hides,

    but the simple go on and suffer for it.

13 Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger,

    and hold it in pledge when he puts up safety for an adulteress.

14 Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice,

    rising early in the morning,

    will be counted as cursing.

15 A continual dripping on a rainy day

    and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

16 to restrain her is to control the wind

    or to grasp oil in one’s right hand.

-Proverbs 27:11-16 ESV

Verse 11 study: Parents are usually right in wisdom before others because of the parents’ success. They can pass knowledge on to their children.

Verse 12 study: Prudent = simple. Discretion is the better part of valor.

Verse 14 study: This reference is to say that saying this is a false representation of friendship when that is not the case. Closed-minded friends may look at it as evil intent when your intent is to be good in motivating your friend.

Verses 15-16 study: Unnecessary arguments, and unwanted advice, are all forms of torture. People tend to nag because they believe they are not getting through. Nagging hinders communication more than it helps. Stop and learn your motives when tempted to engage in destructive habits. Are you concerned about yourself, having your way, wanting to be right, more than about the person you are pretending to help? If you are concerned about others, your communication should be better to react or effectively get through them. Surprise them with words of patience and love and see what happens.