Proverbs 29
v.19
A servant cannot be corrected by mere words; though he understands, he will not respond.
v.20
Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
v.25
Fear of man will become a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
True security is the result of trusting God and not other humans. Fear of others becomes a snare when it gets to the point of letting others control your life—their opinions and attitudes put subtle pressure on you, even hindering you from speaking the truth or doing what is right. Release from such bondage comes when people put their faith in the Lord alone (see 10:27; 12:2; Ac 5:29).
A man who wishes to be praised by men when You do not praise him, will not be defended by men when you judge him, nor delivered by men when you condemn him. But it can happen, not that a sinner is praised in the desires of his soul, not that a man is blessed who does ungodly, but that he is praised on account of some gift that You have given him: even so, if he rejoices more because he is praised that because he has the gift, then this man too is praised by men but blamed by You, and the man who praised him is better than the himself who is praised: for the one took pleasure in God’s gift in man, whereas the other took more pleasure in what man gave than in what God gave.
Augustine 10.XXXVI.58
v.26
Many seek an audience with a ruler, but it is from the Lord that man gets justice.
True justice ultimately comes from God. The great miscalculation is to assume that true justice depends on some ruler and that supplication must be directed first to him