Proverbs 26:9
Like a thorn which falls into the hand of a drunkard,
So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
A drunkard state is celebrated by our society. At least it would seem. The Friday, Saturday night party is as common as the cold and the outcome about the same. The majority of people can't wait to relax with a drink in their hands, and whereas the majority don't get drunk they laugh and enjoy the one who does. There is nothing so funny as a drunk man who gets up on a picnic table to make fun of himself ... and others. The drunkard doesn't realize he is funny. He/she only realized ... well, correction, they don't realize and that is the point of this proverb. Like a drunk man or women who doesn't realize what is happening to them so too a fool who is quoting a proverb; or, has the proverb at their very lips. A drunkard could get a thorn stuck in his/her hand and not even know it. They don't know the pain or the problem. How many stories are told by people who wake up and don't remember the pain they caused or had inflicted to them because they were drunk the night before. So, too, someone who denies the power of an awesome God, does not fear God and says there is no God. That person is a fool and you can give him/her point blank truth and they will not realize what they have. They won't realize the pain (like a thorn in the paw) that denying the truth they have will cause them. They don't see that they are in deep trouble for rejecting God and His truth. They only are high on their own thoughts and drunk with their own rational. Don't be a fool: Everyone is getting drunk on something when they are drinking in the Water of the Word.
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