Explanation of Proverbs 1:28-33

Something that YHWH showed me over the Sabbath (14 November 2009)...

Counsel (עצה eytsah, Strong's #6098): The word eytsah, meaning counsel, is the feminine form of the masculine word eyts [str:6086] meaning a tree. Counsel is the giving of advice, encouragement or guidance. Within the family or the community this would be an elder, one filled with years of wisdom and experience. In the Hebrew mind this elder, or counselor, and his counsel is seen as the support to the community in the same way that the trunk of a tree supports the branches of the tree.*

From the definition of counsel above, we can see that it means tree. YHWH had two trees in His garden, the Tree of Life and the Tree of Good and Evil.

Proverbs 1:28 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Proverbs 1:29 - For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Proverbs 1:30 - They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. YHWH's tree is the Tree of Life. He says that the Torah, His instructions, prolong life in Deuteronomy 6:2 (That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.) The people, whom YHWH is speaking of here, despised His knowledge, the Torah, which brings forth life.

Proverbs 1:31 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.The fruit that they eat of is the fruit of the Tree of Good and Evil, because they are deciding their own way what should be called good and evil.

Proverbs 1:32 - For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 1:33 - But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Since YHWH speaks of counsel, and we know this to be translated tree, and since He speaks of eating fruit, it only makes sense to interpret it as speaking about His two trees in His garden.

©Kimberly Padilla, A.A. Religion
16 November 2009