Comments on November 5th One Year Bible ReadingsTypePad2010-11-05T02:55:59ZOne Year Biblehttps://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/2010/11/november-5th-one-year-bible-readings/comments/atom.xml/David Chin commented on 'November 5th One Year Bible Readings'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c5ebf53ef0133f59b2415970b2010-11-05T12:02:40Z2010-11-05T12:02:40ZDavid ChinHi A fool's provocation is really heavy when that fool is your own self! I am my greatest provoker when...<p>Hi<br />
A fool's provocation is really heavy when that fool is your own self!<br />
I am my greatest provoker when I fool myself to worshiping idols. <br />
I am really seeing the benefit of commenting on the Bible readings on this Blog. In order for me to comment I have to at least read it and think about what it says to me. I am not good at memorizing scripture but at least I could read and understand. Commenting forces me to do just that. </p>Ramona commented on 'November 5th One Year Bible Readings'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c5ebf53ef0133f598cc5a970b2010-11-05T03:08:06Z2010-11-05T03:08:06ZRamonaProverbs 27:3 Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool's [unreasoning] wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both...<p>Proverbs 27:3</p>
<p>Stone is heavy and sand weighty, but a fool's [unreasoning] wrath is heavier and more intolerable than both of them. Wrath is cruel and anger is an overwhelming flood, but who is able to stand before jealousy?<br />
(Proverbs 27:3-4 AMP)</p>
<p>I came across this Proverb in my reading today and was completely blown out of the water. Someone, I don’t remember who, had compared the carrying of certain kinds of people who have fallen because of their own choices which they continue to make, thus they are in the truth sense of its meaning, unrepentant, akin to “Walking with rocks in your pocket. “ Here this text is saying that the burden taken on by those associated with a fool in his anger is more oppressive then the combining of “rocks” and sand. In fact the weight is crushing. Yet greater still in its crippling effects of jealously/envy.</p>
<p>I looked up the Hebrew word translated here in English as fool and this is what I found. Pay close attention to the transliteration.</p>
<p>In Strong’s:</p>
<p>H191 (Strong’s Number)<br />
אויל 'ĕvîyl<br />
ev-eel'<br />
From an unused root (meaning to be perverse); (figuratively) silly: - fool (-ish) (man).</p>
<p>In the Brown-Driver-Briggs’ Hebrew Definitions we have:</p>
<p>H191<br />
אויל<br />
'ĕvîyl<br />
BDB Definition:<br />
1) be foolish, foolish<br />
1a) (substantive)<br />
1a1) of one who despises wisdom<br />
1a2) of one who mocks when guilty<br />
1a3) of one who is quarrelsome<br />
1a4) of one who is licentious<br />
Part of Speech: adjective masculine<br />
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root (meaning to be perverse)</p>
<p>I have a question to believers. If we have associated ourselves with the “fools” described in this Proverb, then we have “yoked” ourselves to someone or some group that will effectively stop us from being effective in God’s Kingdom because we have yoked ourselves to someone who is not yoked to God, thus we are being pulled away in the wrong direction. And their strength is such that unless God shatters that yolk we will allow them to take us to a place where we don’t want to go.</p>
<p>Either way we will in effect sever that relationship by way of us uncoupling ourselves from that yoke or God shatters it. Could I be grieving over a relationship that is leading me down the wrong path when God has unyoked me from that oppressive situation? Yikes!!</p>
<p>Grace and peace and keep thinking about what you are reading. Don’t shoot your brains out.</p>
<p>Ramona</p>