Proverbs 17:27 KJV
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
The idea here is that a man who has knowledge doesn’t feel the need to validate his own self through endless rumblings. He is generous with his knowledge at the right, at the right place, in the right way and with the right people, but he is neither boastful nor arrogant. He actually seems pretty humble about himself, which is a proof of his knowledge acquisition. Someone who knows has realized how little he knows, or even how little man can achieve to know compared to all there is to know.
The Hebrew wording for the second clause is, ‘and the cool of temper is a man of understanding’. What is there to understand that gives a man ‘coolness’ of temper, even in the midst of controversy (as controversy is the time when temper is tested)?
These two clauses may seem unrelated, but here is an idea. Someone of a cool temper spares his words because he has understanding due to his knowledge. In ‘English’, what I mean to express is that: A man who owns a true knowledge of Yeshua Hamashiach His Savior, doesn’t need to talk much to prove himself because his life style, his ‘conversation in this world’ as the apostle called it, is the testimony of the knowledge of his heart. This understanding of the ways of Messiah in return gives him an excellent spirit.
This proverb is very useful in teaching how to recognize knowledge versus pseudo-knowledge. Many people talk about many things these days, but the earmarks of true knowledge are found in a person that is sparing, careful and humble with his words. A true person of knowledge is also ‘excellent’ in spirit, excellency being of course measured by the standards of the One who admonished us with the following words:
The idea here is that a man who has knowledge doesn’t feel the need to validate his own self through endless rumblings. He is generous with his knowledge at the right, at the right place, in the right way and with the right people, but he is neither boastful nor arrogant. He actually seems pretty humble about himself, which is a proof of his knowledge acquisition. Someone who knows has realized how little he knows, or even how little man can achieve to know compared to all there is to know.
The Hebrew wording for the second clause is, ‘and the cool of temper is a man of understanding’. What is there to understand that gives a man ‘coolness’ of temper, even in the midst of controversy (as controversy is the time when temper is tested)?
These two clauses may seem unrelated, but here is an idea. Someone of a cool temper spares his words because he has understanding due to his knowledge. In ‘English’, what I mean to express is that: A man who owns a true knowledge of Yeshua Hamashiach His Savior, doesn’t need to talk much to prove himself because his life style, his ‘conversation in this world’ as the apostle called it, is the testimony of the knowledge of his heart. This understanding of the ways of Messiah in return gives him an excellent spirit.
This proverb is very useful in teaching how to recognize knowledge versus pseudo-knowledge. Many people talk about many things these days, but the earmarks of true knowledge are found in a person that is sparing, careful and humble with his words. A true person of knowledge is also ‘excellent’ in spirit, excellency being of course measured by the standards of the One who admonished us with the following words:
‘Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect’.
Matthew 5:48
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