Today, I am reading and commenting on Proverbs 22-24.

Today’s passage comes closer to following a theme than the passages for the last two days.  It still covers a lot of ground in giving us advice on how to live wisely.  However, one thing is says is that these sayings will teach us to be honest and to speak the truth.  A little later it says:
“Buy the truth and do not sell it—
    wisdom, instruction and insight as well.”
My initial understanding of that reads it as telling us to be truthful and not be willing to lie in order to gain something.  I genuinely believe that the writer would agree with that, but would then tell me that there is more to it than that.  In addition to being truthful we should seek out the full truth.  We should not be satisfied with the simple easy things we can learn about events.  We should seek the entire truth and not settle for partial truths.  The writer is once again telling us t gather all of the facts before we reach a conclusion about a situation.  Another one of the sayings in today’s passage is closely related to this:
“Rescue those being led away to death;
    hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
 If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this,’
    does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?”
When you know terrible things are being done to others, but look the other way because you pretend that you do not know what is going on, you are either failing to “buy the truth” or you are “selling” it.  Many times people see this as applying to looking the other way when the government unjustly persecutes people, and they are not wrong (although I have not always been convinced that those who apply it that way were seeing actual persecution).  But it also applies when we look the other way when the mob riots and causes destruction.  We need to call out those who are in the wrong in both cases.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.