Pr. 27: Nothing for Granted

Proverbs 27:1 "Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth."

We can make all these plans, but who knows anything about tomorrow? So why brag about what you are planning, and how great things are going to be? That's different than having hope for the future. Hope is rarely specific.

It's annoying when people brag about themselves.

Verse 3 seems to elevate jealousy above anger and fury on the scale of stuff that's hard to withstand. Why is that? What makes jealousy so severe? Because anger and fury are born out of jealousy? Or is it vice-versa?

When someone has wronged you, don't they seem to fall all over themselves to "multiply kisses," to appear congenial to you? I mean, sometimes.

It is interesting the disparity in how appetizing the best food is when the belly is full and when it is empty. Too much of a good thing.

A loud blessing of your neighbor in the morning is taken as a curse? When you hear yelling outside in the morning, don't you want to curse? You assume someone is getting reamed out. And then you make assumptions that person did something to warrant that berating.

That quarrelsome wife being a constant dripping? Dripping is annoying man, and it just brings you down, because you're wasting water. What is that quarrelsome wife wasting?

Iron sharpening iron. I guess I get it. Is iron so special that it is the only element capable of such things?