I am busy lately, and yes I do not manage my time so that I would have time to write here on my blog. The blog moved down on my important things to do, so I do not get to write in here. Today I have been reading Ecclesiast 10. It is almost like a chapter form the Proverbs. It’s a very practical chapter:
1 Dead flies in perfume make it stink, And a little foolishness decomposes much wisdom.
2 Wise thinking leads to right living; Stupid thinking leads to wrong living.
3 Fools on the road have no sense of direction. The way they walk tells the story: “There goes the fool again!”
4 If a ruler loses his temper against you, don’t panic; A calm disposition quiets intemperate rage.
5-7 Here’s a piece of bad business I’ve seen on this earth, An error that can be blamed on whoever is in charge:
- Immaturity is given a place of prominence,
- While maturity is made to take a backseat.
- I’ve seen unproven upstarts riding in style,
- While experienced veterans are put out to pasture.
8 Caution: The trap you set might catch you.
Warning: Your accomplice in crime might double-cross you.
9 Safety first: Quarrying stones is dangerous.
Be alert: Felling trees is hazardous.
OR: Whoever removes [landmark] stones or hews out [new ones with similar intent] will be hurt with them, and he who fells trees will be endangered by them.
10 Remember: The duller the ax the harder the work;
Use your head: The more brains, the less muscle.
11 If the snake bites before it’s been charmed, what’s the point in then sending for the charmer?
12-13 The words of a wise person are gracious. The talk of a fool self-destructs — he starts out talking nonsense and ends up spouting insanity and evil.
14 Fools talk way too much, chattering stuff they know nothing about.
15 A decent day’s work so fatigues fools that they can’t find their way back to town.
16-17 Unlucky the land whose king is a young pup, and whose princes party all night.
Lucky the land whose king is mature, where the princes behave themselves and don’t drink themselves silly.
18 A shiftless man lives in a tumbledown shack;
A lazy woman ends up with a leaky roof.
19 Laughter and bread go together,
And wine gives sparkle to life—
But it’s money that makes the world go around.
20 Don’t bad-mouth your leaders, not even under your breath,
And don’t abuse your betters, even in the privacy of your home.
Loose talk has a way of getting picked up and spread around.
Little birds drop the crumbs of your gossip far and wide.
Ecclesiast 10
If you like Romanian, here is my key points from what I understood and took for me:
- Dacă eşti înţelept ai grija să fii astfel tot timpul, căci toţi au aşteptări de la tine, iar cum greşeşti ceva toţi observa. Aşa că nu căuta să fii ştiut drept înţelept sau că ştii prea multe, ci fii smerit şi trăieşte-ţi viaţa
- Ai grijă ce şi cum gândeşti, căci la fel vei şi trăi
- Când te atacă cineva, indiferent cum, are sau nu dreptate, tu rămâi calm, căci astfel ai şanse mai mari să ieşi din situaţie bine
- Când vei ajunge să fii la conducere, ai grijă pe cine pui în frunte:
- Nu pe cel imatur ci pe cel încercat
- Nu pe cel neîncercat ci pe un veteran
- Nu gândi şi nu plănui rău spre aproapele tău… nu doar că poţi cadea tu în locul lui, dar nu e corect în faţa Domnului
- Ai grija la cel ce e în tabăra ta, ca să nu treacă de partea duşmanului
- Nu schimba hotărârile făcute, căci rău mia poţi ajunge
- Cu cât îţi foloseşti mai bine şi mai degrab înţelepciunea, cu atât va trebui să munceşti mai mult
- Nu sta la vorba cu cel necugetat, căci va ajunge să te blesteme la sfârşit… timpul e limitat, aşa că foloseşte-l cât mai bine
- Oriunde ai lucra şi pentru cine, caută să fie oameni cu experienţă şi încercaţi
- Nu vorbi de rău pe nimeni, nici măcar în gândul tău să nu existe aşa ceva. Nu că te-ar putea auzi cel pe care îl vorbeşti de rău, ci nu e bine înaintea Domnului, e păcat!
