PRIN CE ÎŞI VA ÎNDREPTA UN TÂNĂR CALEA SA? (PSALMUL 118, 9A)
HOW CAN A YOUNG MAN CLEANSE HIS WAY? (PSALM 118, 9A)

Summary/Abstract: If ancient writings can still convey something to the young generation, which is very familiar nowadays with all the discoveries of modern technology and which is ‘dependent’ on all these, then my approach will not be in vain. Just as the school years cannot be absent in the biography of a person, the ‘compulsory’ school bibliography cannot omit the Book of Proverbs, a jewel of the sapiential literature of the Old Testament. For the theology student, who is the first to have the chance to read these lines, they constitute an invitation to read a text which will help him know wisdom and learning and understand the meaning of the profound and witty words. But above all, it will help him understand justice, truth and the righteous judgment, and it will satisfy ‘the thirst for meaning’ that man has deeply inscribed in his being. If we usually say that wisdom is the prerogative of the white-haired or of old age, the Holy Scripture gives us many examples that contradict this ‘rule’, presenting young people whose pure and unblemished conscience opposes the opinion of the majority as a kind of protest against the superficiality, the recklessness and the flightiness of the vulgus that behaves mediocrely and totally devoid of judgmental spirit.

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