nyaru’s Reviews > The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version > Status Update

"As a door turns on its hinges,
so does a lazy person in bed."
"The lazy person buries a hand in the dish,
and is too tired to bring it back to the mouth."
"Like a thornbush brandished by the hand
of a drunkard
is a proverb in the mouth of the fool."
"The lazy person is wiser in self-esteem
than seven who can answer discreetly."
"Like and archer who wounds everybody
is one who hires a passing fool or
drunkard."

holy hell, proverbs and ecclesiastes are just back to back bangers. i was gonna write about the juxtaposition between the wisdom/loose (or strange) woman at the start of proverbs, or bring up the influence of instruction of amenemope; ecclesiastes spits too, but my fav is proverbs 26, some excerpts:
"Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly."
rest in the next post, char limit hit lol

psalmi so dalec najdalse poglavje do zdj, sm idk prevec se ponavlajo imo

finishing off the historical books with nehemiah and esther, moving onto the poetical/wisdom books 🥱

good to see some plot happening, even if it's just banning mixed marriages or whatever ezra was doing

finally done with the worst part thus far, chronicles 1 and 2 are unironically just recap episodes, mostly for 2 samuel and onwards, which is just the past 3 chapters. myb you could say it's like an alt history account, but idk man the differences are not that great tbh

2 kings nadaljuje z side characters, kinda sta elijah pa elisha "the baldhead" the highlight tega. sm ja plot je da je zahodni svet (israel pa judah) padu basically

civil war arc civil war arc!!! drgac 1 kings ma ful prevec characterjev, tko judges type situation je. basically filler

2 samuel not featuring my fav character samuel. "any evidence that david was involved with the death of his enemies is merely circumstantial" - avtor 2 samuel prolly. idk absalom delou štalo, idk če je še kej pomembnga blo

1 samuel je dost funny k misls da bo samuel main character, sm zato da ga saul takoj zamena da ga david takoj zamena in druga polovica je sm preganjanje davida naokrog. sicer koncn vem context za tist alex o'connor bit about the amalekites (tj. saul falla out of favor with the lord ker ne ubije useh ampk pusti najbolse zivali pa kralja za sacrifice lol)