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28:1 The wicked person flees when there is no one pursuing , but the righteous person is as confident as a lion . 28:2 When a country is rebellious it has many princes , but by someone who is discerning and knowledgeable order is maintained . 28:3 A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food . 28:4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked , but those who keep the law contend with them. 28:5 Evil people do not understand justice , but those who seek the Lord understand it all . 28:6 A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich . 28:7 The one who keeps the law is a discerning child , but a companion of gluttons brings shame to his parents . 28:8 The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy . 28:9 The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law , even his prayer is an abomination . 28:10 The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit , but the blameless will inherit what is good . 28:11 A rich person is wise in his own eyes , but a discerning poor person can evaluate him properly . 28:12 When the righteous rejoice , great is the glory , but when the wicked rise to power, people are sought out . 28:13 The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper , but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy . 28:14 Blessed is the one who is always cautious , but whoever hardens his heart will fall into evil . 28:15 Like a roaring lion or a roving bear , so is a wicked ruler over a poor people .

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  • Proverbs claims to be a compendium of the wise sayings of several different individuals.4Solomon originated some of them (10:1-22:16 and chs. 25-29 definitely, and probably chs. 1-9 as well).5Unnamed wise men (sages) wrote ot...
  • The Book of Proverbs contains no history. It is purely didactic. It is a book of explicit instruction. Like the other Old Testament wisdom books, Job and Ecclesiastes, it does not contain references to Israel's laws, rituals,...
  • I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9A. Introduction to the book 1:1-71. The title of the book 1:12. The purpose of the book 1:2-63. The thesis of the book 1:7B. Instruction for young people 1:8-7:271. Warning against consorting w...
  • Verse one introduces both the book as a whole and chapters 1-9 in particular. The Book of Proverbs is a collection of at least five separate groups of proverbs. There are those that Solomon spoke and or wrote (possibly chs. 1...
  • The trust of the wise son (vv. 5-6) comes from heeding sound teaching (vv. 1-4), and it leads to confident obedience (vv. 7-9)."Teaching"(v. 1, Heb. torah) means "law"or, more fundamentally, "direction."Here the context sugge...
  • We return now to the proverbs of Solomon (cf. 1:1-22:16). Chapters 25-26 contain proverbs that are mainly comparisons. The key words in these chapters are "like . . . so."Chapter 27 is a mixture of comparative and antithetica...
  • 25:1 A group of scholars who served during King Hezekiah's reign (715-686 B.C.) added more of Solomon's 3,000 proverbs (1 Kings 4:32) to the former collection (1:1-22:16). These men lived about 250 years after Solomon. Solomo...
  • Most of the proverbs in this section are couplets, and most of them set forth a truth by means of a contrast.28:2 When wickedness abounds in a land there is usually a high rate of turnover in the leadership (v. 2a). The North...
  • Chapters 30 and 31 form a distinct section in Proverbs because neither Solomon (1:1-22:16; chs. 25-29) nor the unnamed sages (22:17-24:34) wrote them. Two other wise men whose names the text records did. Some expositors specu...
  • Some commentators have regarded only the first nine verses of this chapter as Lemuel's writing. One reason for this is that the Septuagint translators separated verses 1-9 from verse 10-31 by five chapters (chs. 25-29). Howev...
  • The quality of wisdom that Proverbs presents is much more than the ability to apply knowledge to various situations in life effectively. It also involves submission to the way of God that is the order of life God has revealed...
  • Isaiah continued the sheep metaphor but applied it to the Servant to contrast sinful people and their innocent substitute. Here it is not the sheep's tendency to get lost but its nondefensive nature that is the characteristic...
  • The Pharisees, who considered themselves enlightened, now tried to badger the formerly blind man into denying that he saw the light.9:24 The Pharisees now questioned the healed man again. They had already decided that Jesus w...
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