I’m trying to walk my talk and read my Bible more and so this morning I’m doing a Bible study on successful business principles from Proverbs. It’s a study insomuch as I take all the KJV verses and use BibleGateway to translate them into the New Living Translation and suddenly (whoa) I understand the verse and feel quite smug and scholarly.

So I come across Proverbs chapter 30 and stumble upon this shiny gem in verse 21:

There are three things that make the earth tremble— no, four it cannot endure:

1.) a slave who becomes a king
2.) an overbearing fool who prospers
3.) a bitter woman who finally gets a husband
4.) a servant girl who supplants her mistress

I have this funny feeling that this author was governed by a former slave, worked for a prosperous overbearing fool, married a bitter woman and had a crush on his servant girl. How the heck else do you conjure up a list like that? Poor guy…

Also, I think I need to work on my spiritual maturity levels if these are the kinds of lessons I draw from Word time. Heh.