good advice
I know not the Lord, neither have I heard his voice. I have not the knowledge of God, nor of the holy knowledge have I understanding. Surely I am but a brute. Even among men I am less than a son of man. What is his name? and what are his precepts? Who was his son? Tell me if you can for my soul languishes. And all knowledge departs from me now.
When I was in my youth I sought to know these thing, To know Wisdom and Prudence, but in all that I had sought there was only sorrow and loneliness. I had looked unto the Ancients, the ones that went before me to see if there were some holy knowledge I did not understand, but alas all the founders of the earth have been laid low. Their treasures corrupted and stolen, their Monoliths were all but dust. All the wise men going down to the depths of Sheol before me. The knowledge of the most high, was not there. I looked at all the religions of the earth. The Christians and the Muslims alike, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism, but in the end they were the sons of men just like me, and they could only tell me I must have faith.
I looked to the ant's, and the conies, for wisdom, the way of an Eagle in the air, the way of a snake upon a rock, and yet the way of wisdom eluded me. And I thought, surly I am a fool, not worthy of Wisdom.
As I grew older, I realized that wisdom does not live with the elderly, and the older I got the more I became set in my ways. Churlish, and froward I have become.
Oh that I had listened to my teachers, but I would none of their reproach.
Not following the path of the lord, I went the crooked path. The path that has many briers, and thorns. crooked and evil it is, homelessness and poverty, loneliness' and destitution. He had told me long ago, that I should repent, and love reproof, and rebuke. That I should keep his saying, and bind them to my heart. That he may put his path straight before my feet.
And so at my end I realized that there was a Lord, for how else could all this evil come upon me. How could everything work against me? Then I realized that God is, and he is greatly to be feared. For I have seen his wrath, and drank of his cup. I learned of the Lord by his punishment, and found the truth by the absence of lies.
Now I'm not saying my son, that you should go this way. For them who seek to be masters will have many a peril. But instead, listen to rebuke, turn the other cheek, while you can. Learn the words of the Lord, and do them. Try to stay as far away from the crooked path as you can. for a stone is heavy, and the sand is weighty, but a fools wrath is worse than them both. Why should you perish?
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