Proverbs for the family (196)(1971)(1976), Canadian Bible Society,Toronto.
This brief review is from a small pamphlet produced and published by my employer, the Canadian Bible Society. I am at the Vancouver location of 1207 Kingsway, Vancouver.
My views are my own, (hopefully within God's perfect will) and yet not officially the views of my employer, the Canadian Bible Society.
Proverbs from the easy reading Good News Bible.
Sections include:
About Home and Family
For Young Women
For Young Men
About Discipline
Examples:
Proverbs 15: 32
If you refuse to learn, you are hurting yourself. If you accept correction, you will become wiser.
And the version from my often cited New American Standard Bible
Proverbs 15:32
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
32 He who neglects discipline despises himself, But he who listens to reproof acquires [a]understanding.
Footnotes:
Proverbs 15:32 Lit heart
Theologically, this is an acknowledgement of finite human nature, and a lack of infinite human knowledge. God alone has infinite knowledge.
Human beings and all creation are biblically and theologically created and philosophically, I reason, contingent and not necessary. The contingent does not have to logically exist; it may or may not exist, unlike what is necessary, that logically exists.
Proverbs 26:4
If you answer a silly question, you are just as silly as the person who asked it.
Proverbs 26:4
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Or you will also be like him.
I very much appreciate the NASB version. I reason this statement is generally true in the context of intellectual discussion and debate. It might be more permissible to answer such a question in satirical and humourous contexts.
Proverbs 19: 27
Son, when you stop learning, you will soon neglect what you already know.
A reason, I do not rely upon academic knowledge gained through academic degrees alone and keep researching and writing website articles.
Proverbs 19:27
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
27 Cease listening, my son, to discipline, And you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Fini
