Not sure if Cliff has gotten around to the Bible yet. (He makes cheat sheets for huge works like Moby Dick, War and Peace, Oxford English Dictionary, etc...). So while reading through Proverbs I thought I'd try my hand at distilling the wisdom of Solomon into a few key themes. Of course this immediately violates #5 below for even thinking I could do anything with Solomon's wisdom. Where did my bag of chips go?
1) Talking/gossip/lying: Shut yer pie hole (Proverbs 4:24; 17:28; 12:17-19; 10:19; 20:19)
2) Your job: Work yer tail off (Proverbs 6:6-11; 10:4-5; 18:9; 20:4)
2a) Your job: But don't work so you got nothin' else to give (Prov 23:4)
3) Sexual temptation: you get burned when yer playin' with fire (Proverbs 4:14-15; 6:27-28; 7:22-23; the entire 5th chapter)
4) Wisdom: worth more than gold (Prov 4:6-7; 8:10-11; and practically every other verse in the book)
5) Humility: Don't think yer "all that and a bag of chips" (Prov 8:13; 3:34)
6) Ill-gotten gains: not worth jack squat (or they are worth just jack squat. Either way). (Prov 10: 2, 15:16-17; 20:17; 28:6,16)
7) Honesty: Don't be a scammer. (Prov 16:11; 20:10; 22:1)
8) Generosity: Give some of what you got. (Prov 3:27-28; 19:17; 21:13; 23:6-8; 28:22)
9) Righteousness: Be that. (Prov 3:33; 4:18; 20:7; 28:12)
10) Wickedness: Don't be that. (Prov 3:33; 4:14; 28:9)
11) Parenting: Yer more than a buddy. (Prov 19:18; 22:6)
12) Anger: Simmer down. (Prov 19:19; 29:11; 30:33)
13) The Fear of God: Yer knees best be knockin'. (Prov 19:23; 22:4; 23:17; 28:14)
14) Honoring parents: treat them like they are all that and a bag of chips (Prov 20:20).
15) Foolishness: Don't be a fool (Prov 26:1-12; throw a dart and you'll probably hit a verse about the folly of a fool)
16) Justice: give a rat's [backside] about the poor (Prov 29:7, 14)
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