Proverbs 18:18
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What does Proverbs 18:18 mean?
The lot causeth contentions to cease
When a case cannot be determined among parties at variance in a
private way, nor in a court of judicature, the lot is cast, and
that puts an end to all strife, and makes each party easy; they
submit to it, and acquiesce in it; and parteth between the
mighty;
the kings and princes of the earth; men of great power and
authority, and of great riches and affluence; and so in a
capacity of contending with each other, and of prolonging the
contention, which may be attended with bad consequences; and who
are not easily dissuaded from it: or it may intend such who most
vehemently disagree; persons of great spirits, who are obstinate
and stubborn, and will by no means yield, and there is no parting
them by arguments or legal decisions; these the lot parts, and
causes them to cease from their quarrels and contentions, and to
rest satisfied with the distributions the lot makes to them; as
the children of Israel were with their portion of the land of
Canaan, assigned them by lot.
