{"id":4992,"date":"2026-09-23T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:26:02","slug":"consider-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/consider-consider\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider, consider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proverbs 23:1 KJV \u2014 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The phrase &#8220;Consider diligently&#8221; is a translation of one Hebrew word repeated twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>B\u00een, b\u00een.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider. Pay attention. Be attentive. Keep your wits about you. Observe. Notice what&#8217;s going on. Be alert to the details. See what&#8217;s happening. See the connections, themes, symmetry and poetry. Know the number and nature of everything you see, and everything you don&#8217;t see (with your eyes). See the history. See the chemistry. See the geometry. Observe the sequence of events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then do that twice over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s how much effort or energy you need to have when you&#8217;re in the presence of a ruler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 23:1 KJV \u2014 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: The phrase &#8220;Consider diligently&#8221; is a translation of one Hebrew word repeated twice. B\u00een, b\u00een. Consider. Pay attention. Be attentive. Keep your wits about you. Observe. Notice what&#8217;s going on. Be alert to the details. See what&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/consider-consider\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consider, consider&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4992\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}