A snip from this podcast Charles Barkley is a role-model for many of the younger athletes and for the Black community at large.
One acts rich but has nothing; another acts poor but has great wealth. -Proverbs 13:7 (This is the foundational premise of The Millionaire Next Door. You can LOOK like you are wealthy or you can BE wealthy but you cannot be both.)
The stupid sow discord by their insolence, but wisdom is with those who take counsel. -Proverbs 13:10 (Stay away from crowds.)
Wealth won quickly dwindles away, but gathered little by little, it grows. -Proverbs 13:11 (Maddening how on-line gambling seems to target poor people)
The shrewd always act prudently but the foolish parade folly. -Proverbs 13:16 (Flashing wealth on social media and Tic-Tack trends)
Poverty and shame befall those who let go of discipline, but those who hold on to reproof receive honor. -Proverbs 13:18 (In spite of mountains of evidence, people want honor and wealth while avoiding discipline)
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment. -Proverbs 13:23 KJV (Listed from two different translations. Slight differences in choice of words but vast difference in meaning)
The tillage of the poor yields abundant food, but possessions are swept away for lack of justice. Proverbs -13:23 NAB
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