The Book of Proverbs
The book of Proverbs contrast what two ways of living life?
1) Those who reject God's laws and refuse to keep his covenant "fools" 2)Those who carefully maintain their relationship with God and adhere to his ways are considered wise.
Where in the book are the sayings of the wise men?
22:17 - 24:34
What is the Book of Proverbs?
A collection of short sayings instructing the reader on how to live well. -> General principles to life
Sayings of Agur
Agur = son of Jakeh These proverbs appear to have existed independantly The enemy of wisdom is pride
Wisdom literature is of what two types?
Discoursive wisdom (grapples with difficulties in life, like Job) and instructional or didactic (optimistic about life, like Proverbs)
Proverbs has close parallels with what other type of instructional wisdom.
Egyptian
What chapter is the pinnacle of the Bible's view of wisdom?
Proverbs 8
The Book of Proverbs is the _________ book of the "wisdom literature"
Second
About The Proverbs of Solomon 10:1
Sets the preceding collection of discourses off from this unit of individual proverbs. This unit consists largely of a collection of proverbial sayings in poetry of two lines each (distichs).
The book contains how many collections of proverbs from different authors?
Seven collections
How should you read the proverbs?
Slowly & contemplatively. Remembering their broad and general nature.
Who wrote Proverbs?
Solomon, Hezekiah, Agur, Lemuel
The wisdom of finding an excellent wife (31: 10-31)
These verses are an acrostic (the first letter of each line of poetry is the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
What makes 1:8 - 9:18 different than the rest of the book?
They are a series of "fatherly talks" They consist of longer, well crafted discourses, whereas most of the other collections in the book have shorter, tightly written sayings.
The unifying purpose of the collection of proverbs is to what?
To encourage the reader to live rightly and justly before God.
These "thirty sayings" (22:20) have much in common with what?
With the Egyptian document known as the instruction of Amenemope (came from around 1200 B.C. over 200 years before Solomon)
What is a "proverb"?
a succinct and persuasive saying proven true by experience
Sayings of Lemuel
he learned the proverbs at his mother's knee it warns about royal responsibility do not indulge appetites at the expense of their people specifically, it warns abut drunkenness it leads to neglect of the law and persecution of the oppressed
The Proverbs of Solomon cover topics like what?
poverty and wealth, slander, self-discipline, speech and silence, work and laziness, rash promises, discipline in education, sickness and grief, old age, and more.
what are proverbs not?
promises or commands
Solomonic sayings from Hezekiah's collection
scribes in Hezekiah's court copied and compiled this collection they have a short, forceful style Hezekiah's scribes organized certain proverbs into small, topical collections
The Retribution principle
the idea that there is a one-to-one correlation between one's actions and rewards