What Is Your Favorite Passage, Book, and/or Verse In The Holy Bible?

[Wintermute]

Also, Proverbs 27:14 "A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse!"

Hi chckn648,

Could you please take a few minutes to explain what this quote means to you? I've been thinking about it-I even went back and read Proverbs 27-and for the life of me I don't know what it means.

Does it mean that we shouldn't be cheerful in the morning? That seems rather silly, so I assume there is something deeper. Is it ok to be quiet and cheerful? How about loud and depressed? And by a 'curse', what exactly does that mean?

The line before this one, Proverbs 27:13 reads:

"Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman."

And the one following, Proverbs 27:15 says:

"A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike."

Are these related?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Doug

[alakungfu]

This passage assures us that justice will be wholely served.

I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

Matthew 5:18

[Drkshadow03]

Hi chckn648,

Could you please take a few minutes to explain what this quote means to you? I've been thinking about it-I even went back and read Proverbs 27-and for the life of me I don't know what it means.

Does it mean that we shouldn't be cheerful in the morning? That seems rather silly, so I assume there is something deeper. Is it ok to be quiet and cheerful? How about loud and depressed? And by a 'curse', what exactly does that mean?

The line before this one, Proverbs 27:13 reads:

"Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman."

And the one following, Proverbs 27:15 says:

"A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike."

Are these related?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Doug

Doug,

I'm not chckn648, but I'll attempt to answer your question.

For starters my translation in the Tanakh: The Jewish Bible reads differently:

"He who greets his fellow loudly early in the morning shall have it reckoned to him as a curse." - Proverbs 27:14.

The reasoning behind this seems more obvious. If you greet someone loudly in the morning you might disturb your neighbors who may be sleeping. Also, it might come off as a form of bragging. You're trying to show off who you know, the importance of what your speaking about, etc. (it's a kind of ostentation). That's how I would read it. To be fair, I have not read a lot of Biblical scholarship on this section so I'm sort of working completely in the dark myself.

It's not greeting someone in the morning that is in and of itself wrong. It is the "loud" part.

[hellsapoppin]

In the New Testament, parishioners are told not to pray ostentatiously in the temples but to do so quietly in one's closet. The key, I believe, is that when you confer blessings, do so quietly, without any form of ostentatious pretensions. Otherwise, it shows a lack of humility.