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“Spewing Stupid”

“spew

verb

  1. expel large quantities of (something) rapidly and forcibly.” (https://www.google.com/search?q=spew+definition&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS844US844&oq=spew+defin&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.4837j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

“He’s just spewing stupid.” (Max, the son of one of my Hebrew students)

“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,

                        but only in expressing his opinion.”

(God, Proverbs 18:2 The Holy Bible, English Standard Version)

https://accordance.bible/link/read/ESVS#Jer._7:13”

My Hebrew students and I were looking at Proverbs 18:1-3 last night.  When we encountered the observation and warning about the fool in verse 2, one of my students commented that his teenage son said of someone, “He’s just spewing stupid.”

I had never heard this expression before, and was immediately captivated.  That is a wonderful expression: spewing stupid!

It reminds me of another proverb found in Proverbs 15:2.

“The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge,

but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.”

I have often been told that I talk too much.  I usually expend a lot of energy (and words) trying to defend myself against this charge.  Perhaps I should just accept the truth: I do talk too much.  And if I talk too much, I’m almost certainly going to just be spewing stupid.

Oh God, please help me not to spew stupid today.  I will intentionally keep this post short in order to avoid spewing stupid.

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