Being Successful Wisdom Regarding Riddles Numerical Sayings

Being Successful

Wisdom Regarding Riddles

Numerical Sayings

 

Life can be hard to understand

Human behavior and Moral truth

Parables, Saying and Proverbs are not meant to give you the answer

As much as to help you think about the answers

These thoughts should lead us into meditative prayer 

It is in those times of meditation God enlightens us to the truth

Wisdom Regarding Riddles

Numerical Sayings

In Proverbs 30, Agur gives us several Numerical sayings.

Some he numbers and others he does not.

Numbers help us organize and keep track.

For most of us more than three

or four points, we tend to get lost.

When explaining something to someone

don’t give them more than three or four things.

Also it is good to number your points

so those you are speaking to will know

when you move from one point to another.

Wisdom is not about complication.

Wisdom is about making life seem like common sense.

Wisdom will try to make the complicated simple.

Agur starts with 5 points.

Those who slander another worker to his boss 

Proverbs 30:10

Those who despise their parents  

Proverbs 30:11

Those who are blind to their own faults

Proverbs 30:12

Those who are arrogant

Proverbs 30:13

Those who consume the poor

 Proverbs 30:14

In verse 15, Agur starts numbering his points.

Agur triggers the mind with

something we all can relate to…

A leech and the leech has “two” daughters.

Now he has you thinking about leeches.

 He says there are “three” things that are never

satisfied, “four” that never say enough

Proverbs 30:15

The four things…

The grave or death is always looking for another.

The barren womb, the woman who desperately

wants to conceive and have a child.

The earth, the dry ground absorbs

the rain soon wants more.

The fire it consumes as long as

there is combustible matter available.

This riddle gives us five images to help us

get a picture of covetousness and greed

Proverbs 30:16

Proverbs 30:18 says…

 There are three things that are too amazing for me,

four that I do not understand:

 Proverbs 30:21

 Under three things the earth trembles,

under four it cannot bear up:

Proverbs 30:24

Four things on earth are small,

yet they are extremely wise:

Proverbs 30:29

There are three things that are stately in their stride,

four that move with stately bearing:

Life can be hard to understand.

Human behavior and Moral truth.

Parables, Saying and Proverbs are not meant

to give you the answer as much as to

help you think about the answers.

These thoughts should lead us into meditative prayer.

 

It is in those times of meditation

God enlightens us to the truth.

As I grew up in the church I

many times heard the “not to do”.

 It became clear I got knowledge

of what not to do.

But I had the question of why?

Parables, Sayings, Riddles and Proverbs

help you with the “Why?”

They develop our understanding.

When we break it down to

numerical 1,2,3 it simplifies things.

  

So be one who meditates on

the Word of God day and night.

Scripture Reading

Proverbs 30:15-33 NIV

15 "The leech has two daughters. 'Give! Give!' they cry.

"There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, 'Enough!': 16 the grave, the barren womb, land, which is never satisfied with water, and fire, which never says, 'Enough!'

17 "The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures.

18 "There are three things that are too amazing for me, four that I do not understand: 19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a maiden.

20 "This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, 'I've done nothing wrong.'

21 "Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: 22 a servant who becomes king, a fool who is full of food, 23 an unloved woman who is married, and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.

24 "Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise: 25 Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; 26 coneys are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags; 27 locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks; 28 a lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces. 29 "There are three things that are stately in their stride, four that move with stately bearing: 30 a lion, mighty among beasts, who retreats before nothing; 31 a strutting rooster, a he-goat, and a king with his army around him.  

32 "If you have played the fool and exalted yourself, or if you have planned evil, clap your hand over your mouth! 33 For as churning the milk produces butter, and as twisting the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife."