Week 36: Proverbs 10:1 – 22:16

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THE BOOK OF PROVERBS (2)

 

READING THIS WEEK:   “PROVERBS OF SOLOMON” – 10:1 TO 22:15.

Involved are 375 two-line couplets dealing with various subjects  – “terse statements embodying general truth” in short pithy sentences.   Many of them are “antithetic” (involving contrast) – note the “but” when the contrast is stated (cf.  10:1,2,3,4,5 etc.).

 

LOOKING AT SUBJECTS IN PROVERBS

 

THE HOME

Young people and their parents.

1. 1:8,9 – Advice of parents.  “Pendants” = “a chain of honour”(NEB).
2. 13:1 – A wise son.
3. 20:20 – Cursing father and mother (see also 30:17).  Compare the Law – Lev. 20:9.
4. 23:22,24-25 – Making father and mother glad.

In the New Testament, compare Ephesians 6:1-3.

 

Parental discipline

1. 3:11,12 – Discipline and love.  Quoted in Hebrews 12:5,6.
2. 13:24 – How to hate your son. The ‘rod’ “is probably a figure of speech for discipline of any kind” (NIVsbfn).
3. 19:18 – Act while there is still hope.
4. 22:6 – Train up a child (not an absolute guarantee, but a general truth).
5.  22:15 – Removing folly.
6. 23:13-16 – Saving his life; making my heart glad.
7. 29:15 – A child left to himself.
8. 29:17 – Children who bring delight.

“Rod” is probably a figure of speech for discipline of any kind” (The overall picture in Proverbs is of loving parenthood, patiently teaching righteousness, but not failing to discipline as needed.  Cf. Ephesians 6:4.

 

A good wife and a poor one.

1. 12:4 – A good wife.
2. 18:22 – A good thing.
3. 19:13 – Annoying.
4. 21:9,19 – A contentious woman (see also 27:15,16).
5. 31:10-31 – The virtuous wife and mother.

 

Faithfulness in marriage

1. 5:15-21 – Remember also the pleas to stay away from loose woman.

 

The riches of a happy home.

1. 15:17 and 17:1 –

 

THE FOOLISHNESS OF SIN

1. 4:18,19 – Contrast of two ways.
2. 6:16-19 – What God hates.
3. 11:18 – Deceptive wages
4. 14:34 – Sin a reproach.
5. 15:8,29 – The worship of the wicked and the righteous.
6. 25:26 – A muddied spring.
7. 28;1 – A problem of conscience and fear.
8. 30:20 – No sense of guilt.

 

INDUSTRY AND LAZINESS

1. 6:6-11 – Go to the ant,  lazybones!
2.        10;4,5 – A wise son.
3. 10:26 – Smoke to the eyes.
4. 12:9 – The put-on.
5. 18:9 – Brother to the destroyer.
6. 24:30-34 – The result of laziness.
7. 26:13-15 – “There is a lion in the streets!”
8. 27:18,23-27 – Rewards of the man who is industrious.

In the New Testament:   Ephesians 4:28; Colossians 3:22-24; 2 Thessalonians 3:10.

 

THE TONGUE AND ITS USES

1. 10:19 – The sure way to a “slip of the tongue.”
2. 11:12,13 – The time for silence.
3. 11:17 – A cruel man hurts himself.
4. 12:18,19,22 – Words like sword thrusts.
5. 15:1 – Value of a soft answer (cf. 16:27,28; 17:4).
6. 17:28 – Some people are better off silent!
7. 18:6-8 – A fool’s lips (20:3,19).
8. 26:20 – how to put the fire out.
9. 28:23 and 29:5 – Flattery and rebuke.

In the New Testament: Colossians 4:6 and James 3.

 

WINE AND STRONG DRINK

1. 20:1 – A mocker.
2. 23:20,21 – Wine bibbers and gluttons.
3. 23:29-35 – A vivid description. How to avoid alcoholism?  Leave it alone!
4. 31:4-7 – Not for kings.  It has a deadening influence as a sedation.

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