don’t spread false reports
don’t help a wicked man by
malicious witness
Based on the Bible verse, Exodus 23:1 – “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.”
I intend to do nothing here but hold up a mirror and you can see what you brought.
There are those who will say that this verse applies to a figure in the news today who is being assailed … ASSAILED … on all sides by lies, by fraud, by cheating, by evil government and governors who are dedicated to the downfall of this figure. The extent to which the system has lined up so many false charges, bad Judges and officials and other malicious false witnesses against this figure only goes to PROVE the rightness of the person and his cause.
There are those who will say that this verse applies to this same figure in the news, along with the people who support him. who ignore any and all evidence that, in any way shows that, this person is guilty, to the point that, those people who feel this way, feel that those who do not feel this way, have lost their minds.
I am not making any comment as to either of these points of view.
As I said, I am just holding up a mirror and you will see what you want to see.
So why this haiku then?
I’ll tell you why.
According to the Online Encyclopaedia Britannica, the book of Exodus was perhaps written as early as 950 BCE.
Or about 3000 years ago.
My point is that, 3000 years, folks had to be told, Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
Plus ça change plus c est la même!
I have to add one last.
In quoting the the verse I used the latest online version which states:
Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
For my haiku, I am using my old OXFORD SCHOLFIELD NIV from 1984 which says:
Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Interesting.
N’est-ce pas?
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