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1Proverbs 1 grounds knowledge in the fear of YHWH and exposes the deadly cost of refusing wisdom.2Wisdom comes from YHWH, takes root in the heart, and guards those who seek it from paths leading to death.3Proverbs 3 joins wholehearted trust in YHWH to the pursuit of wisdom and just conduct toward neighbors.4Proverbs 4 urges the son to treasure wisdom, avoid the path of evil, and guard the heart that directs his life.5Proverbs 5 exposes adultery’s ruinous end and commends faithful delight in marriage under YHWH’s searching gaze.6Proverbs 6 shows how wise instruction guards life against reckless pledges, neglected work, deceit, and the ruin of adultery.7Proverbs 7 exposes the deadly end of adultery’s promises and urges the reader to keep wisdom close before temptation arrives.8Wisdom grounds her call to righteous living in her presence beside YHWH before creation and her promise of life.9Proverbs 9 sets wisdom’s life-giving feast against folly’s hidden death, with reverence for YHWH at the center.10Proverbs 10 traces how wisdom and wickedness shape everyday conduct and lead toward life or ruin under YHWH’s rule.11Proverbs 11 traces how integrity and generosity sustain life, while deceit, destructive speech, and trust in wealth bring ruin.12Proverbs 12 traces how righteousness takes shape in teachable hearts, honest work, and speech that heals rather than harms.13Proverbs 13 traces how teachability, speech, work, and companionship shape a life, while acknowledging delayed hope and destructive injustice.14Proverbs 14 ties wise conduct to the fear of YHWH, tracing its effects through households, neighbors, and nations.15Proverbs 15 joins wise speech and a teachable heart to life under YHWH, who sees and judges all.16Proverbs 16 places human plans under YHWH’s rule and measures wisdom through humility, justice, speech, and self-control.17Proverbs 17 weighs speech, relationships, and public justice under YHWH, who tests hearts and rejects corrupt judgments.18Proverbs 18 weighs the consequences of speech and pride, setting YHWH’s protection beside the false security of wealth.19Proverbs 19 weighs wealth and human plans against integrity, teachability, and YHWH’s prevailing counsel.20Proverbs 20 tests human conduct by YHWH’s standards while exposing the limits of human purity, understanding, and control.21Proverbs 21 places human plans and conduct under YHWH, who weighs hearts and values righteousness above religious display.22Proverbs 22 joins trust in YHWH to wise conduct with money, children, neighbors, and work.23Proverbs 23 teaches the heart to prize wisdom and fear YHWH amid wealth’s appeal and appetites that destroy.24Proverbs 24 ties wisdom to strength in trouble, restraint toward enemies, and responsibility for people and work entrusted to human care.25Proverbs 25 links wise rule and wise relationships through humility, trustworthy speech, kindness toward enemies, and restraint.26Proverbs 26 exposes how conceit sustains folly and how careless or deceptive speech spreads harm through a community.27Proverbs 27 joins humility about tomorrow with honest friendship and steady care for the people and resources close at hand.28Proverbs 28 measures wealth and power by obedience to God, exposing the harm of greed and the folly of self-trust.29Proverbs 29 traces how receiving correction and honoring YHWH shape conduct, while pride and injustice damage whole communities.30Proverbs 30 sets human limits beside God’s flawless words, tracing wisdom through contentment, close observation, and restraint.31Proverbs 31 joins a ruler’s duty to defend the vulnerable with praise for a woman whose wisdom bears public fruit.
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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).