Proverbs 6 - Walkthrough

 Hello and today I'll continue the Proverbs series. Late timing today - (it was kind of because I was sort of tired after writing Sunday's 1 Peter sermon, let's hope that doesn't happen next week), but anyways, let's begin the proverb of the day, Proverbs 6.

Proverbs 6 was a proverb of King Solomon. In the last chapter, he warns us not to engage in adultery, and in this one, he warns us not to be a fool - and not to be folly. What is foolishness/folly? Folly, or foolishness is a characteristic of somebody who is the opposite of wise and is reckless or unjust.

The chapter begins by telling us that when we have been trapped by a stranger/sinful person's ways and methods, this is what we should do: since we have fell, we must free ourselves from that stranger's trap, because we can take their bad ways/doings and do them ourselves.

In the next paragraph/stanza, it tells us to go to wise people and be taught by them, rather than the opposite - to bond with fools. We should consider the wise man's ways and use then. It tells us to be like an ant in this metaphor - they store food without any overseer. It tells us not to be like a sluggard, who is slow and lazy.

The proverb says that troublemakers that plots evil and does evil will be destroyed, and there are six things The Lord hates: arrogance (haughty eyes), deceit (lying tongue), bloodshed or anything like it(hands that shed innocent blood), evil plans (a heart that devises wicked schemes), and evil desires (feet that are quick to rush into evil), and starting conflict with lying.

Solomon ends the part about folly and talks about adultery again for the rest of the chapter. It tells us similarly to the one at Proverbs 5: to avoid adultery and not fall into the temptations and sins with it, and not to lust. 

Since it's already repetitive to Proverb 5's lesson, you can just go there. That's the end of Proverbs 6, here's the special verse, and thanks for reading!:

"Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!"

Proverbs 6:6