~Wisdom~
Some of you may have known this some of you may have not. In the Bible it says that wisdom is basicly the most important thing you can get on earth. We are told not to seek fame, riches, even respect. No we are told to find wisdom. Proverbs 3: 14 "For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, And the profit thereof than fine gold."-talking about finding wisdom. And only once we have found wisdom will knowledge have a great purpose in our life. "The fear of Jehovah is the begining of knowledge..." - Proverbs 1:7 In 1 kings 3:19. King Solomon asks God 9 ''Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this thy great people?." Understanding is essentialy the same as wisdom and in the book of proverbs it is a reaccuring theme, being how they are the Proverbs of King Solomon. Prov. 2:10 "For wisdom shall enter into the heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;" and Prov. 3:13 "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that getteth understanding." As I was reading about this I came across verse 18 in Ecclesiastes 1 saying- "For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" Now I had no clue what this meant so i looked for more about it and after reading the full chapter I think he(it appears that this is written by soloman after he is king) is talking about with wisdom you see how evil this world is. and all the evil. and by seeing all this it makes you in a sense sad or in grief. But there is no other good choice because being in ignorance is foolish and you may be in more grief that way than the other.
Here are some more verses that have to do with wisdom----------
Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.
1 Corinthians :21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe
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4 comments:
Cool post! Wow, I never realized Proverbs were proverbs of Solomon. That makes sense, though. Just curious, are you doing a Bible study of some kind? Or was this more of a personal investigation of wisdom in the Bible?
No I just read proverbs and never heard too much about wisdom so I decided to investigate. Thanks for commenting
Out of curiousity, what translation are you using?
Thank you for reading my blog. Yes, I am a member of the DioM forums as Galadriel and of BotB as Galadriel II
Well for this post i used America standard version. (similar to king James I think) but as for my newer ones I am not entirely sure just kind of grabbed them. (whoops) did you see anything wrong with the version? Because i havnt really hear anything about whether it's accurate or not.
Nice! Are they good forums?
Thanks for reading this one. AND COMMENTING! :)
~VV~
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