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[Anonymous No.4435534]

You fags told me the book of Proverbs was good, I just read 6 chapters of lame verse telling me not to have sex. Does it get better?

[Anonymous No.4435551]

Have you stopped having sex?

[Anonymous No.4435546]

No, you've been had. Proverbs sucks, read Job & Ecclesiastes.

[Anonymous No.4435553]

>>4435546

Or at the very least, the Song of Solomon, which is lame verse telling you to have lots of sex.

[Anonymous No.4435619]

>>4435546

I loved Ecclesiastes, I thought Proverbs would be similar. I'll check out Job

[Anonymous No.4435621]

>>4435551

It only mentions sex with women, and I gave up on having sex with them years ago, so yeah I guess.

[Anonymous No.4435934]

>reading the Bible

[Anonymous No.4435944]

Read the part of the genesis about Jacob. Nigga was cray cray mothefucka

[Anonymous No.4435954]

>>4435619

http://thebricktestament.com/job/index.html

fuck KJV

TBT is best

[Anonymous No.4436221]

>>4435934

>being this fedora

Seriously, read Ecclesiastes, its one of the greatest things ever written.

[Anonymous No.4436226]

Wisdom is personified as a good wife in Proverbs, all the "don't fuck whores" parts are a metaphor for reading things like 4chan instead of actual wisdom.

Still sucks though.

[Anonymous No.4436225]

“The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.”
- Proverbs 11:17


“The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.”
- Proverbs 12:27

“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
- Proverbs 13:20

“Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.”
- Proverbs 16:8

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”
- Proverbs 16:32

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
- Proverbs 17:17

“The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.”
- Proverbs 20:4

“Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty: open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.”
- Proverbs 20:13

“Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”
- Proverbs 21:23

“A wise man is strong, yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.”
- Proverbs 24:5

“Iron sharpeneth iron: so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
- Proverbs 27:17

“A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.”
- Proverbs 29:11

[Anonymous No.4436231]

Proverbs for paranoids, number 1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

[Anonymous No.4436239]

>>4435546
>Job

>God and Satan teaming up to play games on innocent people
>good

Proverbs as wisdom OP. That and Ecclesiastes are the only things worth reading in The Bible.

[Anonymous No.4436981]

>>4436239
Check Zizek's interpretation of the Book of Job. It's not that original (you can find something similar even on wikipedia), but it completely transforms the text from "lel satan let's make bet, fun times" to "God is beyond punishing and/or testing people". I'm not saying it's the right or the "canonical" interpretation, just that it serves that beautiful part of Christianity that doesn't stop at things like divine will or justice-revenge.

[Anonymous No.4437088]

>>4436981

[Anonymous No.4437096]

>>4436225

Lots of wisdom in Proverbs.

[Anonymous No.4437097]

>Solomon says don't fuck whores
>had 700 wives

He wanted them all for himself.

[Anonymous No.4437102]

>>4436239

Job is great precisely because of that, it does not cling to the fiction that God must adhere to our notions of the good and bad. It's one of the only books in the Bible that really faces up to the fact that its God is an all-powerful entity answerable to no one but itself.

[Anonymous No.4437253]

>>4437102
Except in the Book of Job, God did that stuff to Solomon because of a bet with Satan. God wasn't being unanswerable, he was answering to Satan.

[Anonymous No.4437269]

>>4436239
>>4437253
God never makes any "bets" with Satan. Do some reading.

[Anonymous No.4437296]

>>4437269

It was absolutely a wager. Satan thought he could cause Job to curse God and God did not.

It's also a good example of how eminently UN-omniscient God is throughout the Pentateuch and Old Testament.