"One of these things is not like the other...one of these things doesn't belong..."
The structure of these Proverbs over the past couple of chapters is predictable - a simple couplet with the top line telling about the "good" behavior and the following line giving some version of the "opposite" behavior and its consequence.
Until v. 23. "A poor man's field may produce abundant food, but injustice sweeps it away." Who snuck that verse into this chapter? Neither the first line nor the second tell me much about how I should behave. At least not at first glance. This verse opens me up to looking at others. Not about how others will treat me, like many of these proverbs do...but about how I react to those around me.
Injustice is a very broad term. And in our economic system, something to be on guard against in very complex ways. I recently watched the film "Food, Inc." which addresses the industrial complex that has developed to provide cheap food to a very populous nation. With US farm subsidies, the market price of corn is less thant he cost of producing it. Injustice sweeps away the fields of the poor man.
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