Posted on 12/28/2022 7:05:36 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him” (Proverbs 29:19-20).
“A servant will not be corrected by words: but though he understand he will not answer,” even though he understands what's right to protect himself, he won't answer truthfully, honestly. “Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.” It take stronger measures to deal with a servant, to correct him, than just words. “A servant will not be corrected by words.”
This is likely a servant that has had been corrected a number of times. Sooner or later, you have to realize that you are dealing with a fool and in 26:3, it said, “a whip for the horse, a bridal for the ass, and a rod for the fools back.” When a man will not take reproof, when words won't work on them, then you use the rod or the whip.
I realize you can’t do that in America today. We need to remember that the Bible was written by Orientals for an oriental culture. About the only thing you can do to a wicked servant in America is to send him to the unemployment line, which may or may not correct him.
This is why billions of dollars in lost work hours are tacked on to the price of things that we buy, because you can't get servants to do what they were hired to do. They won't really do what they're supposed to do, and words won't straighten a man out.
“A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.” It’s one of the reasons that prices keep going up. “Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?” Hasty to condemn others and justify himself? “there is more hope of a fool than of him.”
“Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few” (Ecclesiastes 5:2).
A man that's hasty with his mouth like the fool that utters his mind in verse 11 is a man just headed for trouble. There's not much hope in him. You know one reason why there’s not a whole lot of hope in the fellow? You can't get him to shut up long enough to listen.
“Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?” He’s got an answer for everything, he’s a walking source of solutions, except none of them work—and neither does he. You know, he is just a positive thinker and you can't get through to him. You just can't seem to get him to see the folly of his actions. What he needs not to do is to engage his mouth and listen.
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