PEACE & LOVE IN ITS TRUE COLOURS
THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON…FOR ONE TO KNOW WISDOM AND DISCIPLINE, TO DISCERN THE SAYINGS OF UNDERSTANDING, TO RECEIVE THE DISCIPLINE THAT GIVES INSIGHT, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUDGMENT AND UPRIGHTNESS, TO GIVE TO THE INEXPERIENCED ONES SHREWDNESS, TO A YOUNG MAN KNOWLEDGE AND THINKING ABILITY. A WISE PERSON WILL LISTEN AND TAKE IN MORE INSTRUCTION, AND A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING IS THE ONE WHO ACQUIRES SKILLFUL DIRECTION, TO UNDERSTAND A PROVERB AND A PUZZLING SAYING, THE WORDS OF WISE PERSONS AND THEIR RIDDLES
THE WORLD OUR GLOBE IS ONE.
BUT THE WORLD OF HUMANKIND ARE MANY.
SOLOMON WAS VERY RIGHT WHEN HE SAID,
"MAN HAS DOMINATED MAN TO HIS OWN INJURY".
SHOULD THE LOWLY ONE KEEPS BOWING LOW,
AND THE PROUD HIS NOSE IN THE CLOUD POINTS.
THE EVENTUALITY OF BOTH REMAINS THE SAME.
THE HASTE, THE HATRED, THE HEIGHTS. WHERE AT ALL ARE WE GOING? WE KNOW WHERE WE CAME FROM; BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING. SHOULD WE SIT DOWN JUST ONCE AND PONDER, HOW THOUGHTFUL WE SHALL BE.
LOVE FOR OUR FELLOW HUMANS IS THE ONLY KEY.
SHOULD WE REALLY "THINK" ABOUT OUR "NEIGHBOURS" BEFORE WE ACT,
AND CONSIDER THE INJURIES WE WOULD INFLICT ON OUR HOME THE EARTH WHEN WE PLAN,
WE WILL ALWAYS APPLY THE "BRAKES" OF OUR THOUGHTS
EVERY SECOND OF OUR LIVES.
THE HOPE IN LOVING OUR "NEIGHBOURS" AS OURSELVES, WE MUST NEVER GIVE UP.
A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE ONCE TOLD ME: "EVEN AT THE DARKEST SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE,
THERE IS ALWAYS THE SMALLEST STAR SHINING".
ACQUIRE WISDOM, ACQUIRE UNDERSTANDING. …IT WILL KEEP YOU. LOVE IT, AND IT WILL SAFEGUARD YOU…. HIGHLY ESTEEM IT, AND IT WILL EXALT YOU. IT WILL GLORIFY YOU BECAUSE YOU EMBRACE IT.
SHOULD WE SHARE THE BEAUTY OF OUR LOVE WITH OUR "NEIGHBOURS", AND PREPARE OUR LIPS ALWAYS TO GIVE THEM SMILES WHEN THEY SIGH, SHOULD THE WORDS FROM OUR HEARTS FOR THEM BE BUT LIKE A FOUNTAIN OF MILK FOR THE LAMB, OUR HEARTS WILL SURELY BE AT REST, ON THE VERY SOFT AND COMFORTABLE CONSCIENCE WE SHALL HAVE
So easily can life slip through the fingers, that one does not know how it all began, however one could readily know how it may end.
...So SEND OUT YOUR BREAD UPON THE SURFACE OF THE WATERS, FOR IN THE COURSE OF MANY DAYS YOU WILL FIND IT AGAIN.
GIVE A PORTION TO SEVEN, OR EVEN EIGHT, FOR YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT CALAMITY WILL
OCCUR ON THE EARTH.
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GO TO THE ANT, YOU LAZY ONE; SEE ITS WAYS AND BECOME WISE. ALTHOUGH IT HAS NO COMMANDER, OFFICER OR RULER, IT PREPARES ITS FOOD EVEN IN THE SUMMER; IT HAS GATHERED ITS FOOD SUPPLIES EVEN IN THE HARVEST. HOW LONG, YOU LAZY ONE, WILL YOU KEEP LYING DOWN? WHEN WILL YOU RISE UP FROM YOUR SLEEP? A LITTLE MORE SLEEP, A LITTLE MORE SLUMBERING, A LITTLE MORE FOLDING OF THE HANDS IN LYING DOWN, AND YOUR POVERTY WILL CERTAINLY COME JUST LIKE SOME ROVER, AND YOUR WANT LIKE AN ARMED MAN
THERE ARE SIX THINGS THAT JEHOVAH DOES HATE; YES, SEVEN ARE THINGS DETESTABLE TO HIS SOUL: LOFTY EYES, A FALSE TONGUE, AND HANDS THAT ARE SHEDDING INNOCENT BLOOD, A HEART FABRICATING HURTFUL SCHEMES, FEET THAT ARE IN A HURRY TO RUN TO BADNESS, A FALSE WITNESS THAT LAUNCHES FORTH LIES, AND ANYONE SENDING FORTH CONTENTIONS AMONG BROTHERS.
HE THAT IS SLOW TO ANGER IS ABUNDANT IN DISCERNMENT, BUT ONE THAT IS IMPATIENT IS EXALTING FOOLISHNESS. A CALM HEART IS THE LIFE OF THE FLESHLY ORGANISM, BUT JEALOUSY IS ROTTENNESS TO THE BONES.
HE THAT IS DEFRAUDING THE LOWLY ONE HAS REPROACHED HIS MAKER, BUT THE ONE SHOWING FAVOR TO THE POOR ONE IS GLORIFYING HIM.
THERE EXISTS A WAY THAT IS UPRIGHT BEFORE A MAN, BUT THE WAYS OF DEATH ARE THE END OF IT AFTERWARD.
JUST LIKE A DOG RETURNING TO ITS VOMIT, THE STUPID ONE IS REPEATING HIS FOOLISHNESS.
HAVE YOU SEEN A MAN WISE IN HIS OWN EYES? THERE IS MORE HOPE FOR THE STUPID ONE THAN FOR HIM.
THE LAZY ONE HAS SAID: “THERE IS A YOUNG LION IN THE WAY, A LION IN AMONG THE PUBLIC SQUARES.” A DOOR KEEPS TURNING UPON ITS PIVOT, AND THE LAZY ONE UPON HIS COUCH. THE LAZY ONE HAS HIDDEN HIS HAND IN THE BANQUET BOWL; HE HAS BECOME TOO WEARY TO BRING IT BACK TO HIS MOUTH. THE LAZY ONE IS WISER IN HIS OWN EYES THAN SEVEN GIVING A SENSIBLE REPLY.
AS ONE GRABBING HOLD OF THE EARS OF A DOG IS ANYONE PASSING BY THAT IS BECOMING FURIOUS AT THE QUARREL THAT IS NOT HIS.
JUST LIKE SOMEONE MAD THAT IS SHOOTING FIERY MISSILES, ARROWS AND DEATH, SO IS THE MAN THAT HAS TRICKED HIS FELLOWMAN AND HAS SAID: “WAS I NOT HAVING FUN?”
WHERE THERE IS NO WOOD THE FIRE GOES OUT, AND WHERE THERE IS NO SLANDERER CONTENTION GROWS STILL. AS CHARCOAL FOR THE EMBERS AND WOOD FOR THE FIRE, SO IS A CONTENTIOUS MAN FOR CAUSING A QUARREL TO GLOW. THE WORDS OF A SLANDERER ARE LIKE THINGS TO BE SWALLOWED GREEDILY, WHICH DO GO DOWN INTO THE INNERMOST PARTS OF THE BELLY.
DO NOT MAKE YOUR BOAST ABOUT THE NEXT DAY, FOR YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT A DAY WILL GIVE BIRTH TO.
MEN OF BOASTFUL TALK INFLAME A TOWN, BUT THOSE WHO ARE WISE TURN BACK ANGER
HAVE YOU BEHELD A MAN HASTY WITH HIS WORDS? THERE IS MORE HOPE FOR SOMEONE STUPID THAN FOR HIM.
IF ONE IS PAMPERING ONE’S SERVANT FROM YOUTH ON, IN HIS LATER LIFE HE WILL EVEN BECOME A THANKLESS ONE
TWO THINGS I HAVE ASKED OF YOU. DO NOT WITHHOLD THEM FROM ME BEFORE I DIE. UNTRUTH AND THE LYING WORD PUT FAR AWAY FROM ME. GIVE ME NEITHER POVERTY NOR RICHES. LET ME DEVOUR THE FOOD PRESCRIBED FOR ME, THAT I MAY NOT BECOME SATISFIED AND I ACTUALLY DENY [YOU] …” AND THAT I MAY NOT COME TO POVERTY AND I ACTUALLY STEAL AND ASSAIL THE NAME OF MY GOD.
DO NOT SLANDER A SERVANT TO HIS MASTER, THAT HE MAY NOT CALL DOWN EVIL UPON YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE TO BE HELD GUILTY.
THE LEECHES HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS [THAT CRY]: “GIVE! GIVE!” THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT DO NOT GET SATISFIED, FOUR THAT HAVE NOT SAID: “ENOUGH!” SHE'OL AND A RESTRAINED WOMB, A LAND THAT HAS NOT BEEN SATISFIED WITH WATER, AND FIRE THAT HAS NOT SAID: “ENOUGH!
THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT HAVE PROVED TOO WONDERFUL FOR ME, AND FOUR THAT I HAVE NOT COME TO KNOW: THE WAY OF AN EAGLE IN THE HEAVENS, THE WAY OF A SERPENT ON A ROCK, THE WAY OF A SHIP IN THE HEART OF THE SEA AND THE WAY OF AN ABLE-BODIED MAN WITH A MAIDEN
UNDER THREE THINGS THE EARTH HAS BEEN AGITATED, AND UNDER FOUR IT IS NOT ABLE TO ENDURE: UNDER A SLAVE WHEN HE RULES AS KING, AND SOMEONE SENSELESS WHEN HE HAS HIS SUFFICIENCY OF FOOD; UNDER A HATED WOMAN WHEN SHE IS TAKEN POSSESSION OF AS A WIFE, AND A MAIDSERVANT WHEN SHE DISPOSSESSES HER MISTRESS
THERE ARE FOUR THINGS THAT ARE THE SMALLEST OF THE EARTH, BUT THEY ARE INSTINCTIVELY WISE: THE ANTS ARE A PEOPLE NOT STRONG, AND YET IN THE SUMMER THEY PREPARE THEIR FOOD; THE ROCK BADGERS ARE A PEOPLE NOT MIGHTY, AND YET UPON A CRAG IS WHERE THEY PUT THEIR HOUSE; THE LOCUSTS HAVE NO KING, AND YET THEY GO FORTH ALL OF THEM DIVIDED INTO GROUPS; THE GECKO LIZARD TAKES HOLD WITH ITS OWN HANDS AND IT IS IN THE GRAND PALACE OF A KING.
THERE ARE THREE THAT DO WELL IN [THEIR] PACING, AND FOUR THAT DO WELL IN [THEIR] MOVING ALONG: THE LION, WHICH IS THE MIGHTIEST AMONG THE BEASTS AND WHICH DOES NOT TURN BACK FROM BEFORE ANYONE; THE GREYHOUND OR THE HE-GOAT, AND A KING OF A BAND OF SOLDIERS OF HIS OWN PEOPLE.
IF YOU HAVE ACTED SENSELESSLY BY LIFTING YOURSELF UP, AND IF YOU HAVE FIXED YOUR THOUGHT [UPON IT], [PUT] THE HAND TO THE MOUTH. FOR THE CHURNING OF MILK IS WHAT BRINGS FORTH BUTTER, AND THE SQUEEZING OF THE NOSE IS WHAT BRINGS FORTH BLOOD, AND THE SQUEEZING OUT OF ANGER IS WHAT BRINGS FORTH QUARRELING.”
Finally,..., whatever things are true, whatever things are of serious concern, whatever things are chaste, whatever things are lovable, whatever things are well spoken of, whatever virtue there is and whatever praiseworthy thing there is, "let's" continue considering these things.
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