Category Archives: Proverbs

Reading:
Proverbs 30:24-33

“If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth” (32).

I have done both. (At least one of them as recently as yesterday.)

And I continue to harvest the bitter fruit. (As do my wife and children.)

But what’s with the closing part of the verse?

Maybe it means that, when I realize my thinking is messed up, I should at least restrain my speech so I don’t audibly broadcast what’s going on in my heart.

Maybe my Spanish Bible has an ending different enough to clarify the meaning….

Nope.

[Turneth not away for any (Proverbs 30:30)]
from Proverbs 30:30

Reading:
Proverbs 30:11-23

Today’s reading begins with four verses that speak of a certain generation. Or is it four different generations? I don’t know. Maybe it doesn’t matter.

What does matter is the truth conveyed in these verses.

Here is one of them:

“There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness” (12).

That’s my generation.

So to verse 12 I say: “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10).

Yes, in me.

[There is a generation.... (Proverbs 30:12)]
from Proverbs 30:12