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24. Concerning Dealing with the Lord

Proverbs also speaks of dealing with the Lord.

a. Fearing the Lord

The reward of humility and the fear of Jehovah are riches and honor and life (22:4). Do not let your heart envy sinners, but live in the fear of Jehovah all day long (23:17). Blessed is the man who always fears, but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity (28:14).

b. Seeking the Lord

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek Jehovah understand all things (28:5).

c. Waiting for the Lord

Do not say, "I will recompense evil"; wait for Jehovah, and He will save you (20:22).

d. Trusting in the Lord

Proverbs 22:19 says, "So that your trust may be in Jehovah,/I have made them known to you today, even to you." A greedy person stirs up contention, but he who trusts in Jehovah will prosper (28:25). The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Jehovah will be exalted (29:25).

e. Taking Man's Spirit as the Lord's Lamp
to Search All Man's Innermost Parts for Him

The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the innermost parts of the inner being (20:27).

25. Concerning Dealing with Parents

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will go out in deep darkness (20:20). In 23:22 the writer says, "Listen to your father who begot you,/And do not despise your mother when she is old." Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, "It is no transgression," is the companion of a man who destroys (28:24). Proverbs 23:25 says, "Let your father and your mother rejoice,/And let her who bore you exult."


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