There are at least ten entrances to the path of the wicked. Each one of the Ten Commandments marks a doorway to wickedness. In each one of t

The impact of this verse is not in the definition of the various words but in the import of what is being said and what is left out. Solomon

A rebuke is information or reminder or anything that is used to stop a person from repeating a damaging or hurtful act that they have done o

Proverbs 3:3 "For length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you" length of days One clearly gets the impression that God's principles in the book of Proverbs are able to lengthen your life; that God's ideas on how to live life are valuable extenders of life. There is a corollary to the ideas of this verse: It is possible to extend one's life if the principles and ideas in this book are followed. In other words, you will live this long if you do xyz stuff; bu

Proverbs 1:2 "To know wisdom and instruction, to discern the sayings of understanding..." to know The word know is interesting in that it is the Hebrew word yada, which is expressed in all the different verb forms in the Old Testament but is always a form of knowing that involves that which comes through the senses – experiential knowledge; almost Aristotelian knowing, growing out of sense experience or other’s sense experience. Solomon does not want to give us theories about

PROVERBS 27:1 "Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth" One of the great dangers is to begin to count too heavily about tomorrow – this is going to happen or that is going to happen... When we boast about what we will accomplish tomorrow, it is even worse. All of our lives are under the sovereign control of God, and we do not really know what will happen tomorrow or what we will accomplish. We can prepare the best we can and we can pray, bu

PROVERBS 16:1 "The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord" The whole of the first four verses of the 16th proverb is about the plans and direction that you are making. This is the way to discern what God wants you to do: First, listen to what you yourself are saying; it could be God trying to get through. Second, check your motives. Why are you planning to do a particular thing? Third, to make sure that you have God's best for you, pra