| Location | Relation | Former half | Latter half |
| 1-16 | Wisdom and discipline | 1:2 That men may appreciate wisdom and discipline, may understand words of intelligence;(1:2) | 8:10 Receive my instruction in preference to silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold. (8:10) |
| 2-15 | Sheol | 1:12like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit. (1:12) | 7:27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. (7:27) |
| 3-14 | The wife of another | 2:16 Saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress with her smooth words, (2:16) | 7:5 That they may keep you from another's wife, from the adulteress with her smooth words. (7:5) |
| 4-13 | Put around your neck | 3:3 Let not kindness and fidelity leave you; bind them around your neck; (3:3) | 6:21 Keep them fastened over your heart always, put them around your neck; (6:21) |
| 5-12 | Happy / Disaster | 3:13 Happy the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding!(3:13) | 6:15 Therefore suddenly ruin comes upon him; in an instant he is crushed beyond cure. (6:15) |
| 6-11 | Snare | 3:26 For the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from the snare. (3:26) | 5:22 By his own iniquities the wicked man will be caught, in the meshes of his own sin he will be held fast; (5:22) |
| 7-10 | Listening | 4:1 Hear, O children, a father's instruction, be attentive, that you may gain understanding!(4:1) | 5:1 My son, to my wisdom be attentive, to my knowledge incline your ear,(5:1) |
| 8-9 | Life | 4:13 Hold fast to instruction, never let her go; keep her, for she is your life. (4:13) | 4:23 With closest custody, guard your heart, for in it are the sources of life. (4:23) |
| Location | Relation | Former half | Latter half |
| 16-31 | Words of wisdom | 8:8 Sincere are all the words of my mouth, no one of them is wily or crooked; (8:8) | 31:26 She opens her mouth in wisdom, and on her tongue is kindly counsel. (31:26) |
| 17-30 | Ruin | 8:36 But he who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.(8:36) | 31:3 Give not your vigor to women, nor your strength to those who ruin kings. (31:3) |
| 18-29 | Knowledge of the Holy One | 9:10 The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the LORD, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (9:10) | 30:3 Neither have I learned wisdom, nor have I the knowledge of the Holy One. (30:3) |
| 19-28 | Solomon's proverbs | Solomon's proverbs | Solomon's proverbs |
| 20-27 | The sayings of the wise | 22:17 The sayings of the wise (22:17) | 24:23 These also are sayings of the wise(24:23) |
| 21-26 | Fear of the LORD | 23:17 be zealous for the fear of the LORD always; (23:17) | 24:21 My son, fear the LORD and the king; (24:21) |
| 22-25 | Ruin of evils | 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton come to poverty, and torpor clothes a man in rags (23:21) | 24:20 For the evil man has no future, the lamp of the wicked will be put out (24:20) |
| 23-24 | Wisdom and family | 23:24 The father of a just man will exult with glee; he who begets a wise son will have joy in him (23:24) | 24:3 By wisdom is a house built, by understanding is it made firm (24:3) |