Biblical Concept: Naive

 

Findings:

 

The naïve need to become crafty.

 

Principle: Some naïve love being naïve.  Perhaps they love being tools?

 

Theorem: Naïve + fools + voting rights = tools = troubles for a nation.

 

The naïve are targets.

 

Naïve and sexual sins, a relationship. (A billion dollar industry in Western democracies.)

 

Theorem: Naïve + fools + craft + wisdom = recovery.

 

Wisdom, the naïve solution.

 

Principle: The naïve are not necessarily quiet types.

 

The naïve wants to believe everything / all speech. “Believes” employs a hiphil inflection and denotes an active participation in the belief process.  Think a lack of desire to “consider” things.  Think the easy way.

 

Naïve and self induced suffering.

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NAS Proverbs 1:4 To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion, (Prudence = hm'r>[' (ormah) and is often translated crafty, craftiness.)  (The naïve need to become crafty.) (Compare: Matthew 10:16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore be shrewd as serpents, and innocent as doves.)

 

 22 "How long, O naive ones, will you love simplicity? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge? (“Naïve” and “simplicity” come from the same root word: ytiP, / petî / ‘simple, foolish, naïve.’  “How long. O naïve ones, will you love naïveté . . . “ “Will you love” uses an imperfect tense which describes a continuation.  Principle: Some naïve love being naïve.  Perhaps they love being tools?  Note the remainder of the verse and verse 32 below.) (“Keep it simple stupid” takes on another meaning.)

 

 32 "For the waywardness of the naive shall kill them, And the complacency of fools shall destroy them. (Naïve and destruction relationship.)  (The naïve is a group of people.)  (Fools is a group of people.)  (Theorem: Naïve + fools + voting rights = tools = troubles for a nation.)

 

NAS Proverbs 7:7 And I saw among the naive, I discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense, (The context: NAS Proverbs 7:1 My son, keep my words, And treasure my commandments within you.  2 Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.  3 Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.  4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," And call understanding your intimate friend;  5 That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.  6 For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,  7 And I saw among the naive, I discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense,  8 Passing through the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house,  9 In the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.  10 And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.  11 She is boisterous and rebellious; Her feet do not remain at home;) (The naïve are targets.) (Naïve and sexual sins, a relationship.  A billion dollar industry in Western democracies.) 

 

NAS Proverbs 8:5 "O naive ones, discern prudence; And, O fools, discern wisdom.  (The context: NAS Proverbs 8:1 Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice?  2 On top of the heights beside the way, Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;  3 Beside the gates, at the opening to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out:  4 "To you, O men, I call, And my voice is to the sons of men.  5 "O naive ones, discern prudence; And, O fools, discern wisdom.  6 "Listen, for I shall speak noble things; And the opening of my lips will produce right things.  7 "For my mouth will utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.  8 "All the utterances of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverted in them.  9 "They are all straightforward to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge.  10 "Take my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choicest gold.  11 "For wisdom is better than jewels; And all desirable things cannot compare with her.  12 "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And I find knowledge and discretion.) (Theorem: Naïve + fools + craft + wisdom = recovery.)

 

NAS Proverbs 9:4 "Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks understanding she says,  (The context: NAS Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars;  2 She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine; She has also set her table;  3 She has sent out her maidens, she calls From the tops of the heights of the city:  4 "Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!" To him who lacks understanding she says,  5 "Come, eat of my food, And drink of the wine I have mixed.  6 "Forsake your folly and live, And proceed in the way of understanding.") (Wisdom, the naïve solution.)

 

 13 The woman of folly is boisterous, She is naive, and knows nothing.  (The context: Proverbs 9:13 The woman of folly is boisterous, She is naive, and knows nothing.  14 And she sits at the doorway of her house, On a seat by the high places of the city,  15 Calling to those who pass by, Who are making their paths straight:  16 "Whoever is naive, let him turn in here," And to him who lacks understanding she says,  17 "Stolen water is sweet; And bread eaten in secret is pleasant."  18 But he does not know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.)  (An alternate translation: A woman of stupidity growls naively and not she knows why.)  (Principle: The naïve are not necessarily quiet types.)

 

 16 "Whoever is naive, let him turn in here," And to him who lacks understanding she says, (See above.)

 

NAS Proverbs 14:15 The naive believes everything, But the prudent man considers his steps.  (“The naive believes everything” = rb"+D"-lk'l. !ymiäa]y: ytiP,â - Alternate literal translation: ‘A naïve one himself believes all speech.’) (“Believes” employs a hiphil inflection and denotes an active participation in the belief process.  The naïve wants to believe everything / all speech.  Think a lack of desire to “consider” things.  Think the easy way.)  

 

 18 The naive inherit folly, But the prudent are crowned with knowledge. (Naïve and self induced suffering.)

 

NAS Proverbs 19:25 Strike a scoffer and the naive may become shrewd, But reprove one who has understanding and he will gain knowledge.

 

NAS Proverbs 21:11 When the scoffer is punished, the naive becomes wise; But when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

 

NAS Proverbs 22:3 The prudent sees the evil and hides himself, But the naive go on, and are punished for it. (Naïve and self induced suffering.)

 

NAS Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man sees evil and hides himself, The naive proceed and pay the penalty. (Naïve and self induced suffering.)

 

NAS Ezekiel 45:20 "And thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who goes astray or is naive; so you shall make atonement for the house.

 

 

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