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| 1 Prologue (1:1-7) 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; (1:7) | The beginning of knowledge | 7 Gain wisdom (4:1-9) 4:7 The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom; at the cost of all you have, get understanding. (4:7) |
| 2 Invitation of wisdom (1:8-33) 1:15 My son, walk not in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path! (1:15) | Avoid the way of wicked | 6 Exhortation of wisdom (3:21-35) 3:31 Envy not the lawless man and choose none of his ways: (3:31) |
| 3 Value of Wisdom (2:1-22) 2:4 If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out: (2:4) | Better than silver | 5 Gift of wisdom (3:11-20) 3:14 For her profit is better than profit in silver, and better than gold is her revenue; (3:14) |
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| 1 Prologue (1:1-7) 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; (1:7) | Fear of the LORD | 4 Blessing of wisdom (3:1-10) 3:7 Be not wise in your own eyes, fear the LORD and turn away from evil; (3:7) |
| 2 Invitation of wisdom (1:8-33) 1:15 My son, walk not in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path! (1:15) | Avoid the way of wicked | 3 Value of Wisdom (2:1-22) 2:12 Saving you from the way of evil men, from men of perverse speech, (2:12) |
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| 4 Blessing of wisdom (3:1-10) 3:2 For many days, and years of life, and peace, will they bring you. (3:2) | Gaining a life | 7 Gain wisdom (4:1-9) 4:4 Let your heart hold fast my words: keep my commands, that you may live! (4:4) |
| 5 Gift of wisdom (3:11-20) 3:13 Happy the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding!(3:13) | Happiness / Blessings | 6 Exhortation of wisdom (3:21-35) 3:33 The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but the dwelling of the just he blesses; (3:33) |
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| 7 Gain wisdom (4:1-9) 4:6 Forsake her not, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will safeguard you; (4:6) | The wisdom preserves you | 13 Warning against adultery (6:20-35) 6:22When you lie down she will watch over you, and when you wake, she will share your concerns; wherever you turn, she will guide you. (6:22) |
| 8 The right way (4:10-19) 4:15 Shun it, cross it not, turn aside from it, and pass on. (4:15) | Escape | 12 Warning against laziness (6:1-19) 6:5 Free yourself as a gazelle from the snare, or as a bird from the hand of the fowler. (6:5) |
| 9 Warning against evil (4:20-27) 4:26 Survey the path for your feet, and let all your ways be sure. (4:26) | Survey the path | 11 Warning against adultery (5:7-23) 5:21 For each man's ways are plain to the LORD'S sight; all their paths he surveys;(5:21) |
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| 7 Gain wisdom (4:1-9) see 1-1-1 | see 1-1-1 | 10 Warning against others (5:1-6) see 1-1-1 |
| 8 The right way (4:10-19) see 1-1-1 | see 1-1-1 | 9 Warning against evil (4:20-27) see 1-1-1 |
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| 10 Warning against others (5:1-6) 5:3 The lips of an adulteress drip with honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; (5:3) | Warning against adultery | 13 Warning against adultery (6:20-35) 6:24 To keep you from your neighbor's wife, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. (6:24) |
| 11 Warning against adultery (5:7-23) 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) | Snare | 12 Warning against laziness (6:1-19) 6:2 You have been snared by the utterance of your lips, caught by the words of your mouth; (6:2) |
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| 13 Warning against adultery (6:20-35) see 1-1 | see 1-1 | 19 Solomon's proverbs (10:1-22:16) see 1-1 |
| 14 Woman of adultery (7:1-23) see 1-1 | see 1-1 | 18 Table of wisdom (9:1-18) see 1-1 |
| 15 Warning against Woman of adultery (7:24-27) see 1-1 | see 1-1 | 17 Listen to me (8:32-36) see 1-1 |
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| 13 Warning against adultery (6:20-35) 6:22When you lie down she will watch over you, and when you wake, she will share your concerns; wherever you turn, she will guide you. (6:22) | Calling of wisdom | 16 Love for wisdom (8:1-31) 8:1 Does not Wisdom call, and Understanding raise her voice?(8:1) |
| 14 Woman of adultery (7:1-23) 7:22 He follows her stupidly, like an ox that is led to slaughter; Like a stag that minces toward the net, (7:22) | Adultery | 15 Warning against Woman of adultery (7:24-27) 7:26 For many are those she has struck down dead, numerous, those she has slain. (7:26) |
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| 16 Love for wisdom (8:1-31) 8:8 Sincere are all the words of my mouth, no one of them is wily or crooked; (8:8) | Righteous mouth | 19 Solomon's proverbs (10:1-22:16) 10:11 A fountain of life is the mouth of the just, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. (10:11) |
| 17 Listen to me (8:32-36) 8:36 But he who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death. (8:36) | Death | 18 Table of wisdom (9:1-18) 9:18 Little he knows that the shades are there, that in the depths of the nether world are her guests!(9:18) |
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| 19 Solomon's proverbs (10:1-22:16) 10:7 The memory of the just will be blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot. (10:7) | The just and the wicked | 25 Disaster of evildoer (24:13-20) 24:16 For the just man falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble to ruin.(24:16) |
| 20 Table of kings (22:17-23:11) 23:9 Speak not for the fool's hearing; he will despise the wisdom of your words. (23:9) | Fool | 24 Sins of fool (23:26-24:12) 24:7 For a fool, to be silent is wisdom; not to open his mouth at the gate.(24:7) |
| 21 Fair lips (23:12-18) 23:16 my inmost being will exult, when your lips speak what is right (23:16) | Exult | 23 To respect parents (23:22-25) 23:24 The father of a just man will exult with glee (23:24) |
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| 19 Solomon's proverbs (10:1-22:16) 10:1 The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes his father glad, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.(10:1) | Wisdom of children | 22 Warning against alcohol (23:19-21) 23:19 Hear, my son, and be wise (23:19) |
| 20 Table of kings (22:17-23:11) 22:18 For it will be well if you keep them in your bosom, if they all are ready on your lips. (22:18) | Exult | 21 Fair lips (23:12-18) 23:16 And my inmost being will exult, when your lips speak what is right. (23:16) |
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| 22 Warning against alcohol (23:19-21) see 1-1-2 | see 1-1-2 | 25 Disaster of evildoer (24:13-20) see 1-1-2 |
| 23 To respect parents (23:22-25) see 1-1-2 | see 1-1-2 | 24 Sins of fool (23:26-24:12) see 1-1-2 |
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| 25 Disaster of evildoer (24:13-20) 24:14 Such, you must know, is wisdom to your soul. If you find it, you will have a future, and your hope will not be cut off. (24:14) | Future | 31 Ode to a capable woman (31:10-31) 31:25 She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs at the days to come.(31:25) |
| 26 Fear to God (24:21-22) 24:21 My son, fear the LORD and the king; (24:21) | Kings | 30 The teaching of king Lemel's mother (31:1-9) 31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine; strong drink is not for princes! (31:4) |
| 27 Other words of wise man (24:23-34) 24:24 He who says to the wicked man, "You are just"-- men will curse him, people will denounce him; (24:24) | Cursed | 29 Sayings of Agur (30:1-33) 30:10 Slander not a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you have to pay the penalty. (30:10) |
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| 25 Disaster of evildoer (24:13-20) 24:13 If you eat honey, my son, because it is good, if virgin honey is sweet to your taste; (24:13) | Honey | 28 Solomon's proverbs (25:1-29:27) 25:16 If you find honey, eat only what you need, lest you become glutted with it and vomit it up. (25:16) |
| 26 Fear to God (24:21-22) 24:22 For suddenly arises the destruction they send, and the ruin from either one, who can measure? (24:22) | Punishment | 27 Other words of wise man (24:23-34) 24:29 Say not, "As he did to me, so will I do to him; I will repay the man according to his deeds."(24:29) |
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| 28 Solomon's proverbs (25:1-29:27) 29:18 Without prophecy the people become demoralized; but happy is he who keeps the law. (29:18) | Happy people | 31 Ode to a capable woman (31:10-31) 31:28 Her children rise up and praise her; her husband, too, extols her: (31:28) |
| 29 Sayings of Agur (30:1-33) 30:14 There is a group whose incisors are swords, whose teeth are knives, Devouring the needy from the earth, and the poor from among men. (30:14) | Torturing poor person / helping poor person | 30 The teaching of king Lemel's mother (31:1-9) 31:9 Open your mouth, decree what is just, defend the needy and the poor! (31:9) |