I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Proverbs 9-13.

    Wisdom and Folly each call out to passersby, offering up rewards to any who will accept their offer. Those who accept Wisdom’s offer will experience life abundantly, while those who accept Folly’s will have short term pleasure followed by death. The wicked and the foolish resent correction, but the wise and the righteous embrace being told where they were wrong. The passage is filled with short proverbs (gee, I bet that comes as a surprise). There is no one theme, but they come back again and again to the same ideas: live your life with discipline, speak well of others, keep their secrets, avoid lies and deception, be straightforward and honest. The writer places an emphasis on the importance of what we say and how we say it. One other thing which the writer comes back to repeatedly is that foolishness and wickedness are indistinguishable.