Proverbs 8:6 · World English Bible
Proverbs 8:6 Meaning Hear
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
What does Proverbs 8:6 mean?
When love speaks in the mind, it does not haggle or accuse; it opens gently and offers what is true. Fear speaks too, in a steady stream of grievance and warning, and a mind grown used to that noise forgets there is anything else to hear.
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When love speaks in the mind, it does not haggle or accuse; it opens gently and offers what is true. Fear speaks too, in a steady stream of grievance and warning, and a mind grown used to that noise forgets there is anything else to hear. To listen for the excellent thing is simply to prefer the teacher who never condemns.
What this voice says is always right, not because it is stern, but because it corrects the single error of believing the self alone and guilty. A mind that leans toward it finds that the kinder account was the accurate one, and the harsh one was only a mistake it had been rehearsing.
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Live Proverbs 8:6 today
- Reread one message before you send it today and take out the sharp edge you added for effect. Say the plain version instead.
- When someone tells you something hard about themselves, resist the urge to diagnose or fix. A short, true, kind sentence does more than a well-argued one.
- In a tense exchange, hold to what is actually so and drop the part that is only meant to win. You can be honest without a single jab in it.
Which voice have I been listening to most today, the one that accuses or the one that just tells me the truth?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism
Right speech is true, kind, useful, and timely. What fails those tests is worth leaving unsaid, however satisfying it would be to say.
Sufism · Rumi
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that makes the garden grow, never thunder.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
Say what you actually see, simply and without theatre. There is a plainness in truth that accusation never has.
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