Spiritual Personality Groups In Proverbs

An Exegetical Guide to Living Wisely

 

Section One

Introduction

God described various groups in the Book of Proverbs. Each of those groups described different kinds of people from a spiritual perspective. Some groups are comprised of good people and other groups are comprised of not good people. Each group has particular characteristics that describe the spiritual nature of the people in the group. Those characteristics may be good or bad. God provided those descriptions to help us understand the kinds of people we deal with everyday. Therefore, we may look at those groups individually and learn about the kinds of people who populate each group. 12345

 

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Section Two

The Simple 

2.1 Proverbs 1:4. Proverbs opens with  corrections for the Simple (Proverbs 1:4). (The Hebrew text provides:”פְתָאיִ֣ם.”)  King Solomon indicated that the Proverbs give prudence to the young men and knowledge and discretion to the young men (Proverbs 1:4).  

2.2 Proverbs 1:22. The simple ones love simplicity[. (The Hebrew text provides: פְּתָיִם֮.)

2.3 Proverbs 1:32. The turning away Yahweh of the simple ones will slay them. (The Hebrew text provides: פְּתָיִם֮.)

 

Section Three

The Young

 

3.1 Proverbs 1:4. The proverbs give knowledge and discretion to the young.  (The Hebrew text provides: to young “לְ֝נַ֗עַר”.)

 

Section Three

The Understanders

2.2 Proverbs 1:5. The Understander will acquire wise counsel.  (The Hebrew text provides: and understanders “וְ֝נָב֗וֹן.”)

2.3 Proverbs 1:6. The Understanders seek to understand a proverb, an enigma, and words of the wise and their riddles.

Section Three

The Wise 

3.1 Proverbs 1.6. Solomon used Proverbs to teach his son about understanding the words of the wise ones (Proverbs 1:6). (The Hebrew text provides: “חֲ֝כָמִ֗ים”.) The Wise spoke in proverbs, enigmas and riddles. God alone provided the understanding to the Wise and their words. 

3.1 Proverbs 3:35. The wise shall inherit glory. 

Section Three

The Sons

3.1 Proverbs 1:8. The sons must hear the discipline of their father and not forsake the law of their mother. (The Hebrew text provides: “my son בְּ֭נִי.”) 

3.1 Proverbs 1:9. The discipline of their father and the law of their mother will be graceful ornaments to their head and chains to their necks.

3.1 Proverbs 1:10. Fathers instruct their sons not to consent sinful enticements.

3.1 Proverbs 1:11. Fathers instruct their sons to avoid shedding innocent blood.

Section Three

The Fathers 

3.1 Proverbs 1:8. The sons must hear the discipline of their father and not forsake the law of their mother. (The Hebrew text provides: “your father אָבִ֑יךָ.) 

3.1 Proverbs 1:9. The discipline of their father and the law of their mother will be graceful ornaments to their head and chains to their necks.

3.1 Proverbs 1:10. Fathers instruct their sons not to consent sinful enticements.

3.1 Proverbs 1:11. Fathers instruct their sons not to avoid shedding innocent blood.

Section Three

The Mothers

3.1 Proverbs 1:8. The sons the law of their mother. (The Hebrew text provides: “your mother אִמֶּֽךָ.”) 

 

Section Three

The Innocent

3.1 Proverbs 1:11. The Sinners lie in wait to shed the blood of the Innocent without cause. (The Hebrew text provides: “to innocent לְנָקִ֣י.”) 

3.1 Proverbs 1:2. The sinners seek to swallow the Innocent like Sheol–alive and whole like Pitters go down to the Pit.

 

Section Three

The Pitters

3.1 Proverbs 1:2. The Pitters go down to the Pit. (The Hebrew text provides: “pit בֽוֹר.”) 

Section Four

The Fools

 

4.1 Proverbs 1:7. The Fools despise the fear of Yahweh. (The Hebrew text provides: “אֱוִילִ֥ים”.) The fear of Yahweh forms the basis for knowledge, wisdom and discipline. Therefore, the Fools will never learn the knowledge, wisdom and discipline that only Yahweh can provide for daily living.

4.2 Proverbs 1:22. Fools love simplicity and hate knowledge. 

4.3 Proverbs 1:32. The complacency of fools will destroy them.

4.4 Proverbs 3:35. Fools exalt shame.

 

Section Five

The Sinners

5.1 Proverbs 1:10. The Sinners entice people to consent their sinful invitations to do evil (Proverbs 1:10). (The Hebrew text provides: “חַ֝טָּאִ֗ים”.)

5.2 Proverbs 1:13. The Sinners will entice people to lie in wait to shed innocent blood.

5.3 Proverbs 1.13. The sinners also claim that they will fill their houses with the spoil they looted from the innocent.  

5.4 Proverbs 1.14. All of the sinners will have one purse they share in common.

5.4 Proverbs 1.14. All of the sinners spread their net in vain in the sight of the bord owner.

5.5 Proverbs 1.16. The feet of sinners  run to evil and hasten to shed blood.

5.6 Proverbs 1.19.The sinners lie in wait for their own blood and lurk secretly for their own lives. they are like all the greedy ones, taking away their own lives.

 

Section Six

The Greedy

6.1 Proverbs 1.18.The Greedy lie in wait for their blood. (The Hebrew text provides Proverbs 1:19: “בֹּ֣צֵֽעַ”.)

6.2 Proverbs 1.19.The Greedy in their ways takes away the life of its owners.

Section Six

The Owners

6.2 Proverbs 1.19.The ways of the Greedy gain the soul of its owners. it takes.

 

Section Seven

The Scorners

7.1 Proverbs 1:22. The Scorners delight in their scorning (Proverbs 1:22). (The Hebrew text provides: “לֵצִ֗ים”.)

7.2 Proverbs 3:34. Yahweh scorns the scornful.

 

Section Eight 

The Listeners

8.1 Proverbs 1:33.The listeners to Yahweh will dwell safely and restfully from fear of evil (Proverbs 1:33). (The Hebrew text provides: “שֹׁמֵ֣עַֽ”.)

 

Section Nine 

The Upright

9.1 The Upright. Yahweh stores of wisdom for the upright and a shield to those walking uprightly. (The Hebrew text provides: Upright Ones: “יְשָׁרִים “)

9.2 Provers 2:12. Yahweh will deliver the upright  from the evil way and from the man intensely speaking perverse things.

9.3 Proverbs 2:13. Some of the upright leave  the paths of the upright to walk in the ways of darkness.

9.4 Proverbs 2:16. Yahweh will deliver the upright from the foreign woman who flatters with her words.

9.5 Proverbs 2:17. Yahweh will deliver the upright from the woman who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her Elohim.

9.6 Proverbs 2:20. Yahweh will helps the upright so that they will walk in the way of goodness and will keep the paths of righteousness.

9.7 Proverbs 2:21. Yahweh will helps the upright so that the upright will dwell in the land the blameless will walk in it.

9.8 Proverbs 3:32. The upright are the council of Yahweh.

 

Section Ten

The Perverse

10.1 Provers 2:12. Yahweh will deliver the upright  from the evil way and from the man intensely speaking perverse things. (The Hebrew text provides: Perverse Ones: “לְהַצִּילְךָ, מִדֶּרֶךְ רָע;    מֵאִישׁ, מְדַבֵּר תַּהְפֻּכוֹת”.)

10.2 Proverbs 2:13. The perverse speak perverse things causing people to leave  the paths of the upright to walk in the ways of darkness.

10.3 Proverbs 2:14. The perverse speak perverse things causing people to rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of evil.

10.4 Proverbs 2:15. The perverse follow ways of the crooked and the devious in their paths. 

 

 

Section Eleven  

The  Crooked

11:1 Proverbs 2:15. The perverse follow ways of the crooked. (The Hebrew text provides: Crooked Ones: “אֲשֶׁר אָרְחֹתֵיהֶם עִקְּשִׁים”.)

 

Section Twelve  

The  Devious

12.1 Proverbs 2:15.The perverse follow the devious in their tracks. (The Hebrew text provides: Devious Ones “וּנְלוֹזִים בְּמַעְגְּלוֹתָם”.)

Section Thirteen

The Wickeds  

13.1 Proverbs 2:22. The wickeds from the earth will be cut off and the treacherous will be uprooted from it. (The Hebrew text provides: And Wicked Ones “וּ֭רְשָׁעִים“.)

13.2 Proverbs 3:25. The wickeds spread fear, sudden terror and trouble.

13.3 Proverbs 3:33. The curse of Yahweh lies in the house of the wickeds.

Section Fourteen

The Treacherous 

14.1 Proverbs2:22. The the treacherous will be uprooted from it. (The Hebrew text provides: And Treacherous Ones “וּ֝בוֹגְדִ֗ים“.)

Section Fifteen

The Holders 

15.1 Proverbs3:13. Blessed is the man who finds wisdom.

15.2 Proverbs3:14. The profit of wisdom is better than the profit of silver and her gain better than fine gold.

15.3 Proverbs3:15. Wisdom  is more precious than jewels; and nothing you desire compares with her.

15.4 Proverbs3:16. Long life is in wisdom’s right hand.

15.5 Proverbs3:17. Wisdom’s  ways are pleasant ways and all her paths are peace. In her left hand are riches and honor.

15.6 Proverbs 3:18. The holders will know wisdom as the tree of life. (The Hebrew text provides: to the holders “לַמַּחֲזִיקִ֣ים“.)

Section Sixteen

The Violent 

16.1 Proverbs 3:31. Do not envy a violent man and do not choose his ways. (The Hebrew text provides: “חָמָ֑ס“.)

Section Seventeen

The Devious 

17.1 Proverbs 3:32. The devious are an abomination to Yahweh. (The Hebrew text provides: “נָל֑וֹז”.) 

Section Eighteen 

The Righteous

18.1 Proverbs 3:33. Yahweh blesses the habitation of the righteous. (The Hebrew text provides: “צַדִּיקִ֣ים”.) 

Section Nineteen 

The Poor

19.1 Proverbs 3:34. Yahweh gives grace to the poor. (The Hebrew text provides: and poor “וְ֝לַעֲנָוִ֗ים”.) 

 

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