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
Proverbs -13:23
ReplyDeleteInjustice and want (lack of good) Judgement from a King is the same.
Not a lot of differences between a "King" and appointed Judges that can take away life, liberty or in the case of this proverb food produced by poor people. For the truly poor the clothing on their backs and FOOD WAS their possessions.
Bible hub's extra verses show it's nothing new under the sun.
Proverbs 18 23
New International Version
The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.
Proverbs 19 7
7All the brothers of a poor man hate him— how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
As the Poem earlier of the Death of a hired man showed.
And in the spirit of the current times and proverbs.
ReplyDeleteProverbs 22:3 (and others)
New Living Translation
A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.
Would it be prudent to assume (a scary word) that not all of us are fully prepared or perhaps in the spirit of Proverbs 27:17
New Living Translation
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
We might discuss chaos planning given that EBT *Might* be crippled Nov 1st as the political game of hurt Trump continues?
Maybe not all of us know to do a 2 person walk around the house to map out bind spots a person inside cannot see? And such?