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Feature Pages(5)
- FeatureProverbs — the Study GuideSkill for living in the fear of the LORD — the six collections the book names itself, the keystone that frames it, and the genre key that keeps a proverb from being read as a promise.
- FeatureWisdom and the PoetsFive Hebrew voices in verse — Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song — and how their poetry, built on paired lines, meets every season of a life.
- FeatureThe Fear of the LORDSix books of the Bible say the same sentence — the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom — and the same passages that command trembling promise the friendship of God.
- FeatureChrist Our WisdomLady Wisdom speaks in Proverbs 8 — before the deeps, beside God as master workman — and the New Testament puts that exact vocabulary on Christ.
- FeatureThe TongueDeath and life are in the power of the tongue — Proverbs' speech-ethics kept as a two-column ledger, with the disciplines that guard the mouth and James 3 as the terminus.
Verses(5+)
- VerseJob 13:12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- VerseProverbs 1:1These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,
- VerseEzekiel 16:44Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- VerseProverbs 1:6by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
- Verse1 Kings 4:32Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
Words (Strong's)(2)
Topics(1)
Apocrypha (study resources)(2)
- Study resourceSirach 47:17The countries marvelled at thee for thy songs, and proverbs, and parables, and interpretations.
- Study resourceSirach 8:8Despise not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs: for of them thou shalt learn instruction, and how to serve great men with ease.