Proverbs 8:35-36, The Fateful Choice
O soul, outside Christ, read verse 36 on your knees and cry to Heaven for mercy. This chapter ends with the fact that there are two opposite Ways, One of Life, the Other of Death, the Way of Salvation or the Way of Destruction (Pr. 14:12). He that sins against me (chata, misses the Prize), wrongs (chamas, does violence to) his own soul. The one who finds Christ, finds Life (lit. my finder), but the one who sins against me (lit. my misser) in reality hates me and not only misses Life, but violates his own soul and in sinful blindness loves death. God puts the issues of Life and Death so clearly as to leave Christ-rejecters without excuse. Their punishment will be just. Therefore, dear reader, learn: