Labor
Commonplace –
“The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin” (Proverbs 10:16).
We all labor every day at something. Here Solomon tells us the results of those endeavors; we are either laboring for the good or laboring for the bad. It seems very simplistic, yet everything we do results in either one or the other, depending on the purpose. What is the purpose?
Matthew Henry’s Commentary is along the same lines. He notes: “The things of this world are good or evil, life or death, as they are used, and as those are that have them” (693).
Works Cited
Henry, Matthew. “Proverbs 10:16.” Matthew Henry’s Commentary On the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition. Volume 3 and Volume 6, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., March 1996.
Holy Bible: Giant Print with Study Aids. Dugan Publishers, Inc., 1984.
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