Proverbs are truisms, they’re generally true. What is being communicated in Proverbs at this point by is that if a man loudly, and the emphasis is on the word loudly, blesses neighbor early in the morning it will be taken as a curse. Why would that be? Think about it? Timing, we might say, is everything. The wrong time for a wonderful action is still a woeful thing. You don’t want to curse someone loudly, nor do you want to bless someone loudly, particularly if it’s early in the morning… If you are doing something loudly in the morning it’s going to be taken as a curse. I think this is related to what you read in Ecclesiastes—There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven: A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot…a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh (3:1-4). There’s a time for everything. All of that, of course, has to be contextualized. You can, for example, lie but only if it’s a greater good. In other words, Rahab purposed to lie to save the Israelites from certain destruction. So the greater good was the saving of life. So there’s a time for everything, if you do something at the wrong time, it still would be considered a curse, that’s the point… There’s a lot we can read into the possible meaning of that proverb. --Hank Hanegraaff | equip.org/audio/in-proverbs-2714-why-is-blessing-your-neighbor-early-in-the-morning-considered-a-curse/
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