Proverbs Experiment: Day Twenty-Six

Proverbs Chapter Twenty-Six:

An employer who hires a fool or a bystander is like an archer who shoots recklessly. (vs. 10)

Which is why employers are so stinkin' careful and deliberate when hiring someone, right? Hopefully I'm the "top fool" out there!

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly. (vs. 11)

I will always remember this verse because of my friend in high school. At my home church, we used to have Sunday night services, something rather typical my age and older (nowadays, does any church still do that Sunday night service where you invite a missionary you support or someone from the congregation to talk, or basically anything else you could think of that was different from Sunday morning?) - and one time one of my friends was invited to give the short talk before prayer time, I believe. He said that he was trying to find a good verse to bring to the church that night, but he kept on thinking about the verse above and so he used it. Let's just say that people laughed and I'm sure those who were there never heard that verse mentioned in church again!

Smooth words may hide a wicked heart, just as a pretty glaze covers a common clay pot. (vs. 23)

This reminds me of where we get our word "sincere". Back in biblical days, an honest potter would let the imperfections in his/her pottery show rather than covering them up. They would then stamp the words "sin cera", or "without wax" on the pot, to let everyone know that they did not use wax to fill the cracks. I think if you're a person who always uses smooth words, but you're actually not a very good person - at some point you're going to slip up and people will see your true intentions and who you really are.