Related Readings: Job 28:28; Psalm 111:10; Matthew 11:27; 1 John 5:20 k REFLECTIONS 101 45 FLIRTATIOUS FOLLY The woman Folly is loud; she is undisciplined and without knowledge. Proverbs 9:13 What is flirtatious folly? It is enticement into reckless living. You may ask, "What does it...
31 Yet[ej] if he is caught[ek] he must repay[el] seven times over,he might even have to give[em] all the wealth of his house.32 A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense,[en]whoever does it destroys his own life.[eo]33 He will be beaten and despised,[ep]and his ...
The woman is not only characterized by a quarrelsome spirit, but also anger—she is easily vexed (cf. NAB “vexatious”; NASB “vexing”; ASV, NRSV “fretful”). The translation “easily-provoked” conveys this idea well. Proverbs 21:20 tn The mention of “olive oil” (שֶׁמ...
free from the sordid misery of the tumble down dwelling, free from the envied hall in his sobriety" ('Carm.,' 2:10). But let us be careful to note that the true state is to be found in the spirit
I.ITS SINFULNESS. The woman who is a sinner is a "strange" woman (ver. 3). The temptress is all too common amongst us, but she isstrangein the sight of God. She is an alien, foreign altogether to his purpose, a sad and wide departure from his thought. And all vice is strange ...
There are many anti-proverbs reducing women to the status of sex objects: Behind every good moan – there’s a woman (< Behind every good man – there’s a woman.); The breasts on the other side of the fence look greener (< The grass on the other side of the fence looks greener....
one woman exclaimed. Grandma patted my shoulders in a way only I could feel, her fingertips telling me all was okay. I was one of them, even if they were grown ladies and I was still a little girl. That little moment of love, it was one I’d never forget. “That’s because ...
16The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough. 17The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for...
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house
14I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the ...