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Proverbs 10:1–5, King James Version

Proverbs 10:1–5

Family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care — The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father:…

The Main Point

uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

What Is Happening Here?

Proverbs 10:1–5 opens with “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is…” and closes with “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a….” Those endpoints show the unit's movement from opening claim to reviewed close.

Context That Shapes This Passage

How does this passage relate?

Proverbs 10:1–5

In “Family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care — The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father:…,” the complete unit develops this passage-specific claim: uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Why this relationship fits: The reviewed reasoning path begins, “Opening (10:1): the unit uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”.” and concludes, “Close (10:5): the unit uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”, creating the next supported pause.”

How does this passage relate?

Proverbs 10:1–5

Proverbs 10:1–5 is the reviewed unit “Family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care — The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father:….” Its parallel lines, repeated address, comparison, or local cluster controls how each verse contributes without borrowing a neighboring unit's subject.

Why this relationship fits: The unit opens “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is…” and closes “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a….”

What earlier material does it rely on?

Proverbs 9:13–18

Folly's banquet closes the prologue and the heading at 10:1 opens the sentence-saying collection.

Why this relationship fits: Proverbs 9:18 in Proverbs 9:13–18 is the reviewed hinge that connects the two units.

Where does this sit in the whole book?

Proverbs as a whole

Proverbs 10:1–5 belongs to “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” Compact parallel sayings train judgment about speech, work, wealth, poverty, family, friendship, anger, justice, rulers, planning, and worship. Most describe normal moral patterns rather than guaranteed outcomes. This unit contributes family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation through its own received wording and form.

Why this relationship fits: The received sequence places Proverbs 10:1–5 inside Proverbs 10:1–22:16; this unit opens “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is…” and closes “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a….” The unit's reviewed main point is: uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

Stage 2 of 4

Follow the Wisdom Collection

See why this section appears here and how the author's wisdom movement leads to its meaning.

Why Is This Passage Here?

Proverbs 10:1–5 appears here because its explicit heading or opening purpose begins “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection” and establishes the collection work that follows: Compact parallel sayings train judgment about speech, work, wealth, poverty, family, friendship, anger, justice, rulers, planning, and worship. Most describe normal moral patterns rather than guaranteed outcomes.

Follow the Saying or Discourse

  1. Opening (10:1): the unit uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”.

  2. Development (10:1–5): adjacent lines test family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation through parallelism, contrast, motive, image, or consequence.

  3. Close (10:5): the unit uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”, creating the next supported pause.

Why This Interpretation Fits

Exact verse-level work

Every line in Proverbs 10:1–5 retains its own Verse Lens role and does not borrow a neighboring verse's claim.

Collection context

The superscription and placement identify this unit inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection”: Compact parallel sayings train judgment about speech, work, wealth, poverty, family, friendship, anger, justice, rulers, planning, and worship. Most describe normal moral patterns rather than guaranteed outcomes.

Proverbial proportion

The unit's instruction and observations concern family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation; they describe moral direction without explaining every exceptional outcome.

Stage 3 of 4

Understand the Meaning and Its Boundaries

Clarify the words that matter and keep the conclusion no broader than the passage allows.

What the Passage Is Not Saying

Reading Proverbs 10:1–5 as edited wisdom rather than a detached formula rules out these uses:

The saying does not command unconditional obedience to abuse, erase adult agency, idealize one household form, or give relatives ownership over another person.

The saying does not make a proverb a universal guarantee, label people permanently, reward contempt, or replace careful attention to exceptional cases.

The saying does not authorize vigilantism, collective blame, discriminatory policing, cruelty, or a claim that one modern institution always speaks for God.

The unit does not turn a normal wisdom pattern into a universal promise, a complete causal explanation of suffering, or a mandate broader than Proverbs 10:1–5.

Context check: Within first solomonic sentence-saying collection, uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” The sayings function as context-shaped instruction and observation: general patterns are not automatic guarantees, commands stay bounded by their ancient role, and an individual line must not erase the edited collection around it.

What Remains True Today

Family relationships can transmit wisdom and responsibility, but their authority remains accountable to truth, safety, and justice. Wisdom is practiced moral perception: learning how words, desires, habits, relationships, and power ordinarily tend toward life or harm. Wisdom requires honest judgment and active regard for people who can be exploited, ignored, or misrepresented. These truths remain proportionate only when the proverb's literary form, affected people, exceptions, and wider fear-of-the-LORD frame remain visible.

Stage 4 of 4

Respond and Remember

Let the meaning shape life carefully, then practice explaining the section in context.

How This Should Shape Us

Why these applications follow
Text

Proverbs 10:1–5 applies family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation through the people, action, comparison, and consequence named in its complete movement.

Meaning in context

Within first solomonic sentence-saying collection, uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” The sayings function as context-shaped instruction and observation: general patterns are not automatic guarantees, commands stay bounded by their ancient role, and an individual line must not erase the edited collection around it.

What remains true

Family relationships can transmit wisdom and responsibility, but their authority remains accountable to truth, safety, and justice. Wisdom is practiced moral perception: learning how words, desires, habits, relationships, and power ordinarily tend toward life or harm. Wisdom requires honest judgment and active regard for people who can be exploited, ignored, or misrepresented. These truths remain proportionate only when the proverb's literary form, affected people, exceptions, and wider fear-of-the-LORD frame remain visible.

How does the application follow proportionately?

Practice mutual listening, clear expectations, dependable care, and boundaries that protect every member's dignity and safety. For a difficult choice, seek correction, compare the likely effects of competing paths, and choose the option that protects truth, justice, and teachability. Use verifiable evidence, fair procedure, proportionate response, and meaningful access for the person with less power. In 10:1–5, let the concrete wording “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad…” keep that response tied to the people, action, comparison, or consequence actually named.

Teach It Back

Explain Proverbs 10:1–5 in your own words. Identify its form and collection, trace one line from role through contextual meaning and enduring truth to application, name one uncertainty, and reject one misuse explicitly.

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Read it sentence by sentenceEach line inside the larger movement
Proverbs 10:1–5

Exact verse-level work

Every line in Proverbs 10:1–5 retains its own Verse Lens role and does not borrow a neighboring verse's claim.

Proverbs 10:1–5

Collection context

The superscription and placement identify this unit inside “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection”: Compact parallel sayings train judgment about speech, work, wealth, poverty, family, friendship, anger, justice, rulers, planning, and worship. Most describe normal moral patterns rather than guaranteed outcomes.

Proverbs 10:1–5

Proverbial proportion

The unit's instruction and observations concern family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation; they describe moral direction without explaining every exceptional outcome.

Original-language wording and grammarTechnical detail appears only where it helps

No individual Hebrew or KJV expression in Proverbs 10:1–5 needs a separate lexical card beyond the complete saying or discourse explanation.

What the first readers would have understoodRelevant history and culture

Edited wisdom and social setting

This unit belongs to first solomonic sentence-saying collection. Aitken's printed pages 405-422 and the book-specific sources identify family, community, agricultural, commercial, scribal, court, and royal settings as relevant possibilities without proving one setting for every saying.

How certain? probable
Why translations sometimes differMaterial translation choices

No older-English term in this unit requires a separate reader note after reading the complete KJV line in context.

Earlier Scripture and inherited backgroundSupported quotations, allusions, and inherited ideas

Israelite wisdom setting

The unit's first horizon is Israel's wisdom collection under fear of the LORD. Torah-shaped justice, creation, household teaching, royal responsibility, and community life may inform the language, but no cross-reference overrides this unit's own parallelism and collection role.

How certain? probable
How this connects with the rest of ScriptureThe passage's own meaning remains primary

Responsible canonical location

Within the received book, Compact parallel sayings train judgment about speech, work, wealth, poverty, family, friendship, anger, justice, rulers, planning, and worship. Most describe normal moral patterns rather than guaranteed outcomes. This local unit is read through that movement before broader canonical comparison.

How certain? probable
Textual variantsManuscript differences only when they affect meaning

No reviewed textual variant changes Proverbs 10:1–5's central wisdom movement; the exact Hebrew and NET notes were still checked against the pinned KJV.

Where careful interpreters disagreeThe strongest options and their difficulties

No major competing interpretation changes Proverbs 10:1–5's central wisdom movement; pattern, exception, and collection limits still remain visible.

Theology that emerges from this passageConclusions drawn after reading the complete section

Theological contribution

The unit places practical wisdom under a moral order answerable to the LORD: Family relationships can transmit wisdom and responsibility, but their authority remains accountable to truth, safety, and justice. Wisdom is practiced moral perception: learning how words, desires, habits, relationships, and power ordinarily tend toward life or harm. Wisdom requires honest judgment and active regard for people who can be exploited, ignored, or misrepresented.

How certain? strong

Theological contribution

Within First Solomonic sentence-saying collection, uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

How certain? strong
Common ways this passage gets misusedFair explanation, context check, and stronger reading

The saying does not command unconditional obedience to abuse, erase adult agency, idealize one household form, or give relatives ownership over another person.

Why it is attractive

A compact saying is easy to detach and universalize.

What context changes

Within first solomonic sentence-saying collection, uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” The sayings function as context-shaped instruction and observation: general patterns are not automatic guarantees, commands stay bounded by their ancient role, and an individual line must not erase the edited collection around it.

A stronger reading

Family relationships can transmit wisdom and responsibility, but their authority remains accountable to truth, safety, and justice. Wisdom is practiced moral perception: learning how words, desires, habits, relationships, and power ordinarily tend toward life or harm. Wisdom requires honest judgment and active regard for people who can be exploited, ignored, or misrepresented. These truths remain proportionate only when the proverb's literary form, affected people, exceptions, and wider fear-of-the-LORD frame remain visible.

What truth can remain

The context-supported contribution remains: uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

The saying does not make a proverb a universal guarantee, label people permanently, reward contempt, or replace careful attention to exceptional cases.

Why it is attractive

An ancient authority, household, wealth, gender, or consequence image can be imported into modern power without following the interpretation chain.

What context changes

Within first solomonic sentence-saying collection, uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” The sayings function as context-shaped instruction and observation: general patterns are not automatic guarantees, commands stay bounded by their ancient role, and an individual line must not erase the edited collection around it.

A stronger reading

Family relationships can transmit wisdom and responsibility, but their authority remains accountable to truth, safety, and justice. Wisdom is practiced moral perception: learning how words, desires, habits, relationships, and power ordinarily tend toward life or harm. Wisdom requires honest judgment and active regard for people who can be exploited, ignored, or misrepresented. These truths remain proportionate only when the proverb's literary form, affected people, exceptions, and wider fear-of-the-LORD frame remain visible.

What truth can remain

The context-supported contribution remains: uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

The saying does not authorize vigilantism, collective blame, discriminatory policing, cruelty, or a claim that one modern institution always speaks for God.

Why it is attractive

An ancient authority, household, wealth, gender, or consequence image can be imported into modern power without following the interpretation chain.

What context changes

Within first solomonic sentence-saying collection, uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” The sayings function as context-shaped instruction and observation: general patterns are not automatic guarantees, commands stay bounded by their ancient role, and an individual line must not erase the edited collection around it.

A stronger reading

Family relationships can transmit wisdom and responsibility, but their authority remains accountable to truth, safety, and justice. Wisdom is practiced moral perception: learning how words, desires, habits, relationships, and power ordinarily tend toward life or harm. Wisdom requires honest judgment and active regard for people who can be exploited, ignored, or misrepresented. These truths remain proportionate only when the proverb's literary form, affected people, exceptions, and wider fear-of-the-LORD frame remain visible.

What truth can remain

The context-supported contribution remains: uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

The unit does not turn a normal wisdom pattern into a universal promise, a complete causal explanation of suffering, or a mandate broader than Proverbs 10:1–5.

Why it is attractive

An ancient authority, household, wealth, gender, or consequence image can be imported into modern power without following the interpretation chain.

What context changes

Within first solomonic sentence-saying collection, uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.” The sayings function as context-shaped instruction and observation: general patterns are not automatic guarantees, commands stay bounded by their ancient role, and an individual line must not erase the edited collection around it.

A stronger reading

Family relationships can transmit wisdom and responsibility, but their authority remains accountable to truth, safety, and justice. Wisdom is practiced moral perception: learning how words, desires, habits, relationships, and power ordinarily tend toward life or harm. Wisdom requires honest judgment and active regard for people who can be exploited, ignored, or misrepresented. These truths remain proportionate only when the proverb's literary form, affected people, exceptions, and wider fear-of-the-LORD frame remain visible.

What truth can remain

The context-supported contribution remains: uses contrastive parallelism to place “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father” against “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”; by 10:5, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son” against “he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame”. Together the unit concentrates on family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception, justice, truthful judgment, and protection from exploitation within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”

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King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.

Proverbs 10:1–5, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.

Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 10:1-10:5

NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes

Supports: Verse-attached textual, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, parallelism, and older-English controls for the exact range.

NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1103-1107, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 10:1–5

Proverbs

Supports: Whole-book and collection orientation, local commentary, social-setting proposals, and named interpretation limits.

Aitken, ‘Proverbs,’ Oxford Bible Commentary, printed pp. 405-422, subsection covering 10:1–5 and the First Solomonic sentence-saying collection outline

Context in the Sayings Collections

Supports: Abstract-level control for the dispute over individual-saying, small-cluster, and collection context; no uninspected detailed claim.

Weeks, ‘Context in the Sayings Collections,’ Early Israelite Wisdom (2000), official abstract and chapter pp. 20-40; methodological question applied to Proverbs 10:1–5

The situational context of statements concerning poverty and wealth in the Book of Proverbs

Supports: One historical-social account of poverty, wealth, interest, oppression, labor, and differing evaluations within the collection.

Wittenberg, ‘Situational context of statements concerning poverty and wealth,’ Scriptura 21, pp. 1-23, especially the sayings and redactional comparison relevant to Proverbs 10:1–5

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Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.

Exact location: Proverbs 10:1–5, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs

Open Scriptures

Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 10:1-10:5

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translation and translator notes

NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes

Biblical Studies Press

Biblical Studies Press, 2006

Supports: Verse-attached textual, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, parallelism, and older-English controls for the exact range.

Exact location: NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1103-1107, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 10:1–5

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modern critical commentary

Proverbs

K. T. Aitken

Oxford University Press, in The Oxford Bible Commentary, 2001

Supports: Whole-book and collection orientation, local commentary, social-setting proposals, and named interpretation limits.

Exact location: Aitken, ‘Proverbs,’ Oxford Bible Commentary, printed pp. 405-422, subsection covering 10:1–5 and the First Solomonic sentence-saying collection outline

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scholarly monograph chapter abstract and metadata

Context in the Sayings Collections

Stuart Weeks

Oxford University Press, in Early Israelite Wisdom, 2000

Supports: Abstract-level control for the dispute over individual-saying, small-cluster, and collection context; no uninspected detailed claim.

Exact location: Weeks, ‘Context in the Sayings Collections,’ Early Israelite Wisdom (2000), official abstract and chapter pp. 20-40; methodological question applied to Proverbs 10:1–5

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peer reviewed open access journal article

The situational context of statements concerning poverty and wealth in the Book of Proverbs

G. H. Wittenberg

Scriptura 21, 1987; open archive 2020

Supports: One historical-social account of poverty, wealth, interest, oppression, labor, and differing evaluations within the collection.

Exact location: Wittenberg, ‘Situational context of statements concerning poverty and wealth,’ Scriptura 21, pp. 1-23, especially the sayings and redactional comparison relevant to Proverbs 10:1–5

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