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In context, Proverbs 1 here is talking about joining with sinful men, plundering and gambling. It is a completely unrelated passage of Scripture. Here it is in-context with the surrounding passages: Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men 8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 9 They ...

Proverbs is wisdom literature, and that category seeks to describe things as they are, not necessarily what they should be. Ecclesiastes 7:15-16, for example, says: In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness. Do not be ...

I usually take proverbs to be straightforward about earthly affairs. They often fall under the theme of Ecclesiastes: A man can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in his work. This too, I see, is from the hand of God (Ecclesiastes 2:24) This proverb might be a word of wisdom to farmers, touching on laziness or reluctance to ...

The common understanding of this apparent conflict is that the two verses describe two situations. One involves answering foolish questions... The ones that are so foolish they don't deserve an answer. The ones that people ask to get a rise out of you, or make a point, when there's no real possibility of an intelligent conversation. The kind we quickly ...

I don't know Hebrew, so I can't offer a whole lot of guidance here, but it seems the apparent contradiction could be a result of different language paradigms. It is interesting that the Hebrew texts for the verses seem to use the same word for "fool" and "not a fool". The grammatical structure and conjugation is baffling to me, but according to the Blue ...

Note: Most on-line commentaries seem ascribe this verse to mean the Son of God and the Arian heresy tried to use it as a means for arguing that the Son was created and therefore not eternal. See these commentaries here. Anyway, when thinking of the Eternal Son as the wisdom of God we run into the idea that the Son was eternally begotten of the Father. ...

"Wisdom" in the context of these verses isn't anybody. It's wisdom, as you or I would understand the word, literally, but in this particular context, Solomon is Anthropomorphizing the character trait of wisdom. I've never once seen a commentary, or heard a message that gives any indication that "Wisdom" in these passages means anything else. That Solomon ...

There are a few different types of books in the Old Testament. I'm no OT scholar, but I think the standard categories are: Pentateuch Historical Wisdom/Poetic Prophetic (Major & Minor) Proverbs is normally classed as wisdom literature. It contains lots of literary devices, such as the one you pointed out, and -- even while many Christians ...

I can tell you who wisdom is in Sirach... Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honoured in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people, and shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power, and in the midst of her own people she shall be exalted, and shall be admired in the holy ...

Scope It would be easy to think this is just a statement of agricultural fact, but remember, All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness -2 Timothy 3:16 So we need to be careful not to dismiss this as a mere statement about life on the farm; this is here in Scripture for a ...