Proverbs chapter 18

vs 13

And done a million times a day in court.

vs 14

Feeling crushed and defeated is so demoralising - even knowing you're dying of sickness isn't the same.

vs 15

Knowledge being more likely to be heard than read, I suppose. Besidse, wisdom is available even for those who are not able to read. Reading is important, though, and you'd think that the wise person would recognise that and seek it out.

vs 16

Things just work in such an odd way. But giving gifts is a love language, so it may be that by giving someone a present, you soften them and show you're wanting to be on their good side.

vs 17

Yeah, this is something worth noting. Convincing people for a living makes you sound convincing. But you have to hear both sides of an argument. Unless you make a Prasad direction of course.

vs 18

It's a stupid way to end an argument, but it works for some reason, in a way that reasoned debate does not. This is why we have so many courts of arbitration, and of appeal - because people who lose in court can't stand it.

vs 19

Sad but true - people wronged often get so tied up in it that they become bitter and refuse to forgive.

vs 20

I assume that this means you can earn a crust from what you say. The thing being, of course, that so many people don't earn a living that way, so I'm confused. Perhaps satisfaction can be found in words? It just seems to be worded quite specifically.

vs 21

See, now obviously tongues don't make fruit. What it does have is power.

vs 22

Awwwwww. Stick that one on your proposal poetry.

vs 23

One's humble, the other haughty.

vs 24

Don't I know it.