Meditation on the Book of Proverbs

3 min readAug 11, 2024

When someone asks God by prayer, the wisdom, according to disciple James, he will be granted to him generously: “So if any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him keep asking God, for he gives generously to all and without reproaching, and it will be given him” (James 1:5). God asks for perseverance in this request, because it must “keep asking”. It will be the demonstration for God, that this request is truly sincere. It must be accompanied by concrete actions in agreement with this prayer. For example, God gave us his word, the Bible. If we have a Bible at home, do we read it every day? If we have not the Bible, it is possible to have one? (Psalms 1:2,3). By reading it, let us take the time to meditate, maybe memorizing some biblical quotes or verses references, in order to find them later?

The book of Proverbs will allow us to be spiritually impregnated by the deposit of divine wisdom. This book is like a large box of hundreds of beautiful spiritual precious pearls, all different from each other. Some, in the form of proverbs, are arranged in several necklaces. For example, in chapters 1 to 9, the proverbs are explained and illustrated in order to give its meaning. The acquisition of this wisdom is not the main purpose, but a way of understanding what should be the spiritual kind of relationship with God (it will be detailed below in the explanation of Proverbs 2:1–9)).

In chapters 10 to 30, there is an uninterrupted succession of several dozen proverbs. It will not be possible to comment all of them. It will be better for everyone who wants, to read the entire chapters. In each chapter of this part, some proverbs will be quoted, with or without comment. The choices of these highlighted proverbs, will be made because of their unusual meaning. The chapter 31 is entirely devoted to the description of the capable wife, the expression of divine wisdom, in the woman aspect and in a family setting.

Reading the Bible (Reading and meditating on the biblical book of Proverbs):

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THE SPIRITUAL MAN (Existential meditation on the biblical book of Ecclesiastes):

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The Promise of God. The complete explanation of Genesis 3:15.

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