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Proverbs 22:20
Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge ... (KJV)
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Proverbs 22:1 - A good name is more desirable than great riches;
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Proverbs 8:33
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. (KJV)
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"Proverbs for Paranoids 1. You may never get to touch the master, but you can tickle his creatures."
Copyright © 2013 by Ian J MacDonald. Permission required for any use. All rights reserved
Pen and ink, Prismacolor colored pencil on paper.
Been Reading gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and I feel inspired to draw it so I can see it. It is a dense, difficult, weird, at times disjointed, disturbing, repulsive, fascinating, technical, winding, encompassing, challenging, thrilling, insightful, wonderful ...and many more adjectives are needed to describe the scope of this book. I read to stimulate my brain to draw...and the more difficult and obscure the subject matter the more I like the challenge of trying to interpret it.
As I was reading I felt a cartoony look to represent the "Proverbs for Paranoids"
Proverbs 7:1-27 (NLT)
Follow my advice, my son; always treasure my commands.
Obey them and live! Guard my teachings as your most precious possession.
Tie them on your fingers as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart.
Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family.
Let them hold you back from an affair with an immoral woman,
from listening to the flattery of an adulterous woman.
I was looking out the window of my house one day
and saw a simpleminded young man who lacked common sense.
He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman.
He was strolling down the path by her house at twilight,
as the day was fading, as the dark of night set in.
The woman approached him, dressed seductively and sly of heart.
She was the brash, rebellious type who never stays at home.
She is often seen in the streets and markets, soliciting at every corner.
She threw her arms around him and kissed him, and with a brazen look she said,
"I've offered my sacrifices and just finished my vows.
It's you I was looking for! I came out to find you, and here you are!
My bed is spread with coloured sheets of finest linen imported from Egypt.
I've perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Come, let's drink our fill of love until morning.
Let's enjoy each other's caresses, for my husband is not home.
He's away on a long trip. He has taken a wallet full of money with him,
and he won't return until later in the month."
So she seduced him with her pretty speech.
With her flattery she enticed him.
He followed her at once, like an ox going to the slaughter or like a trapped stag,
awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart.
He was like a bird flying into a snare, little knowing it would cost him his life.
Listen to me, my sons, and pay attention to my words.
Don't let your hearts stray away toward her.
Don't wander down her wayward path.
For she has been the ruin of many;
numerous men have been her victims.
Her house is the road to the grave.
Her bedroom is the den of death.
DRAWING NOTES:
TIME OF DAY:
Verse 9 of this chapter sets the scene at twilight.
LIGHTING NOTES:
Unspecific - candle or torch light from above & the sides of the scene.
CHARACTERS PRESENT:
A simpleminded young man who lacked common sense & an immoral woman, or adulteress.
RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
As in the previous scene: notice also that the woman has Delphinium (Violet Larkspur) on her pillow. All parts of the plant contain the alkaloid delphinidin which is highly toxic. If ingested in large quantities this toxin causes death. The flowers look pretty & attractive on the outside, but are poisonous & deadly on the inside. That is a flower metaphor for the adulterous woman, who’s attentions bring potential death to the young man.
As verse 27 states: ‘Her house is the road to the grave. Her bedroom is the den of death.’ I wanted to show the true nature of the danger the simpleminded young man is in. We see this scene with “spiritual eyes” & it becomes visible: the woman is death, represented by her skull head. Her bedroom is the den of death: the bedposts are transformed into bat-winged, skull heads; the flowing drapes are now transformed into curling, intense flames of hell. Notice that they are curling around the young man, ready to destroy him.
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A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
-Proverbs 12:3
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Netherlandish Proverbs - Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Nathan(Green Box) 4000 piece
What a puzzle this was & very, very enjoyable. This is the 2nd 3k+ puzzle I have done of this, the previous version was the 3k Ravensburger...The colours & dark areas were completely different in both puzzles, this Nathan being the harder due to the much darker areas, an example would be the bottom/right of the puzzle, the man under the table is barely visible in this version, whereas the Ravensberger version he stood out.
The puzzle itself was worn to say the least, many parts needed fixing probably due to the over tight fit(one reason I like loose pieces). Ware & tear apart the puzzle was amazing quality, even with all the dark areas I only had two false fits & that was in the outside pieces which can be common place. The cut was very odd, it was neither Grid or Ribbon but a mixture of them both, this made it slightly harder to begin with but I soon got the hang of it. Overall a solid 8.5/10
As the wife wants her dining table back for Christmas I have had to agree to do up to 2k puzzle until after Christmas(BOOOOOOO!) LOL
On to the next...
Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
Running themes in Bruegel's paintings that appear in Netherlandish Proverbs are the absurdity, wickedness and foolishness of humans. Its original title, The Blue Cloak or The Folly of the World, indicates that Bruegel's intent was not just to illustrate proverbs, but rather to catalogue human folly. Many of the people depicted show the characteristic blank features that Bruegel used to portray fools.
His son, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, specialised in making copies of his father's work and painted at least 16 copies of Netherlandish Proverbs. Not all versions of the painting, by father or son, show exactly the same proverbs and they also differ in other minor details. The original work by Bruegel the Elder is in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, with the copies in numerous other collections.
Proverbs were very popular in Bruegel's time and before; a hundred years before Bruegel's painting, illustrations of proverbs had been popular in the Flemish books of hours. A number of collections were published, including Adagia, by the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus. The French writer François Rabelais employed significant numbers in his novel Gargantua and Pantagruel, completed in 1564.
The Flemish artist Frans Hogenberg made an engraving illustrating 43 proverbs in around 1558, roughly the same time as Bruegel's painting. The work is very similar in composition to Bruegel's and includes certain proverbs (like the Blue Cloak) which also feature prominently in Netherlandish Proverbs. By depicting literal renditions of proverbs in a peasant setting, both artists have shown a "world turned upside down".
Bruegel himself had produced several works, mostly prints and drawings, on the subject of proverbs including Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556) and Twelve Proverbs (1558), but Netherlandish Proverbs is thought to have been his first large-scale painting on the theme.
The painting, dated 1559, is considered the best of a series of similar paintings which at one time or other have all previously been attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, has been x-rayed for its underdrawing to compare it to other versions. None of the versions have a provenance going back further than the late 19th century, but Bruegel scholars believe that the paintings are the elder Bruegel's inventions, which all make use of a life-size cartoon with the same underdrawing as that used in the Berlin version. The paintings, which are not inscribed, tease the viewer into guessing proverbs. They are based on 1558 and earlier engravings that are inscribed, in Flemish. The most notable of these regarding the paintings is by Frans Hogenberg, and it is dated 1558 and accompanied by the title Die blau huicke is dit meest ghenaemt, maer des weerelts abvisen he beter betaempt (English: Often called 'The Blue Cloak', this could better be called 'The World's Follies'). The Doetecum brothers produced a print series in 1577 called De Blauwe Huyck. Theodoor Galle also made a print, dated later, with a similar title: Dese wtbeeldinghe wort die blauw hvyck genaemt, maer deze werelts abvysen haer beter betaemt.
Critics have praised the composition for its ordered portrayal and integrated scene. There are approximately 126 identifiable proverbs and idioms in the scene, although Bruegel may have included others which cannot be determined because of the language change. Some of those incorporated in the painting are still in popular use, for instance "Swimming against the tide", "Banging one's head against a brick wall" and "Armed to the teeth". Many more have faded from use, which makes analysis of the painting harder. "Having one's roof tiled with tarts", for example, which meant to have an abundance of everything and was an image Bruegel would later feature in his painting of the idyllic Land of Cockaigne (1567).
The Blue Cloak, the piece's original title, features in the centre of the piece and is being placed on a man by his wife, indicating that she is cuckolding him. Other proverbs indicate human foolishness. A man fills in a pond after his calf has died. Just above the central figure of the blue-cloaked man, another man carries daylight in a basket. Some of the figures seem to represent more than one figure of speech (whether this was Bruegel's intention or not is unknown), such as the man shearing a sheep in the centre bottom left of the picture. He is sitting next to a man shearing a pig, so represents the expression "One shears sheep and one shears pigs", meaning that one has the advantage over the other, but may also represent the advice "Shear them but don't skin them", meaning make the most of available assets.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. (KJV)
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Be a generous person… generous with your love, kindness, forgiveness, hope, resources, giving, compassion, help, and grace… with your good ideas, gifts, skills, and talents, sincere compliments and encouragement to others. Don't be stingy or guarded with what you have to give. No more living small lives… live freely and generously!
Proverbs 23:6-8
"Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies, for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words."
Maybe not the most exciting shot but I wanted to discuss this passage in detail.
Quite often the alternative translation of this verse is used to support the idea that the Bible promotes positive thinking. Sometimes people will quote, "As a man thinks within himself, so he is".
I have major problems with taking that approach to interpreting this verse. You can't just take a verse out of context to support your own ideas. Reading this verse in the context of the surrounding passage reveals the true meaning of the phrase and it is not the power of positive thinking. The verse is talking about a stingy man who gives the outward appearance of being generous but inside he is begrudgingly feeding the guest.
For a further analysis have a look at this link from Greg Koukl.
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Proverbs 11:12
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace. (KJV)
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Waiho ma te tangata e mihi
leave it to the people to sing your praises
don't boast of your own achievements
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Proverbs 29:2
... but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. (KJV)
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because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. -
Proverbs 3:12 (NIV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
3:7-12 There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart, than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion teaches, tend not only to the health of the soul, but to the health of the body. Worldly wealth is but poor substance, yet, such as it is, we must honour God with it; and those that do good with what they have, shall have more to do more good with. Should the Lord visit us with trials and sickness, let us not forget that the exhortation speaks to us as to children, for our good. We must not faint under an affliction, be it ever so heavy and long, not be driven to despair, or use wrong means for relief. The father corrects the son whom he loves, because he loves him, and desires that he may be wise and good. Afflictions are so far from doing God's children any hurt, that, by the grace of God, they promote their holiness.
My son runs track for Cookeville High School and this is four photos that I took of him at two separate track meets. One of the pics is him in the 100 yard dash and the other three are from the 4x200 race.
I am very proud of my son and hope that he always remembers the verse that I've included on this collage...Proverbs 18:10 tells us that "the name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous man runs into it and is safe."
The original RAW files taken with my Nikon D5000 were processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop where all photos were combined into the images seen above.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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I didn't know how to illustrate this so am putting the passage in. Very important verses for everyone but especially for guys. A lot of people immediately think it's talking about prostitutes or having an affair...but it can mean much more than that. Porn...continue reading at www.instagram.com/proverbsdaily or www.facebook.com/proverbsdailyig
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Proverbs 10:4
"A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich."
I was contemplating putting this in black and white but decided that it would be a travesty to lose the lovely warm tones that the sun had caused.