- 1 Proverbs 1 Α′ The book opens by declaring wisdom's purpose, grounding it in the fear of God, and setting Wisdom's public call against violent folly. PDF
- 2 Proverbs 2 Β′ Seeking wisdom like hidden treasure leads into the fear of the Lord and delivers the learner from crooked men and destructive desire. PDF
- 3 Proverbs 3 Γ′ Trust, discipline, generosity, and social fidelity gather into a single wisdom homily about walking securely under the Lord's ordering. PDF
- 4 Proverbs 4 Δ′ Inherited wisdom is handed on as a guarded path of light set against the self-darkening way of the wicked. PDF
- 5 Proverbs 5 Ε′ Sweet-seeming seduction is exposed as a path to ruin, while covenantal delight and divine scrutiny anchor the call to fidelity. PDF
- 6 Proverbs 6 Ϛ′ Surety, sloth, perversity, and adultery are gathered into one urgent call for vigilance, work, and self-restraint. PDF
- 7 Proverbs 7 Ζ′ A staged seduction becomes a moral anatomy of desire, exposing the foreign woman's path as a descent into death. PDF
- 8 Proverbs 8 Η′ Proverbs 8 is the great public speech of personified Wisdom. PDF
- 9 Proverbs 9 Θ′ Proverbs 9 stages the culminating contrast between Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly as rival hostesses calling the inexperienced into radically different forms of life. PDF
- 10 Proverbs 10 Ι′ Proverbs 10 opens the Solomonic collections proper with a rapid sequence of antithetical sayings. PDF
- 11 Proverbs 11 ΙΑ′ Proverbs 11 in the Septuagint keeps the chapter's rapid antithetical cadence while giving several sayings a distinctly Greek profile. PDF
- 12 Proverbs 12 ΙΒ′ Proverbs 12 gathers aphorisms around correction, truthful speech, diligent labor, domestic order, and the durable contrast between the righteous and the ungodly. PDF
- 13 Proverbs 13 ΙΓ′ Proverbs 13 gathers short antithetical sayings around teachability, speech, work, wealth, discipline, and companionship. PDF
- 14 Proverbs 14 ΙΔ′ Households, hearts, speech, labor, and nations stand or collapse according to whether wisdom or folly governs them. PDF
- 15 Proverbs 15 ΙΕ′ Proverbs 15 gathers short antithetical and synthetic sayings around speech, discipline, divine scrutiny, household order, justice, prayer, and the inner disposition that makes a life either stable or self-destructive. PDF
- 16 Proverbs 16 ΙϚ′ Proverbs 16 gathers a long sequence of sayings around a cluster of recurring themes: the Lord's hidden governance of human action, the moral testing of speech and motives, the ordering of rule and justice, and the contrast between disciplined self-mastery and self-destructive crookedness. PDF
- 17 Proverbs 17 ΙΖ′ Proverbs 17 gathers compact antithetical sayings on peace within the household, testing of the heart, loyalty among kin and friends, disciplined speech, judicial integrity, and the inward temper that either steadies or ruins a life. PDF
- 18 Proverbs 18 ΙΗ′ Proverbs 18 gathers terse sayings about separation, folly, speech, judgment, wealth, friendship, and domestic blessing. PDF
- 19 Proverbs 19 ΙΘ′ Proverbs 19 gathers sayings about folly, social attachment, truthful witness, mercy, discipline, and the long reach of divine counsel. PDF
- 20 Proverbs 20 Κ′ Proverbs 20 gathers warning sayings about drink, kingship, restraint, counsel, honest measures, speech, vows, and discipline into a compact moral sequence. PDF
- 21 Proverbs 21 ΚΑ′ Power, wealth, sacrifice, and strategy are tested under the Lord's scrutiny and shown durable only when joined to righteousness and restraint. PDF
- 22 Proverbs 22 ΚΒ′ Proverbs 22 joins compact comparative sayings about reputation, wealth, prudence, generosity, company, and justice with a more extended instructional turn beginning at verse 17. PDF
- 23 Proverbs 23 ΚΓ′ Proverbs 23 gathers a long parental sequence of admonitions about appetite, wealth, discipline, inheritance, sexual danger, and drunkenness into one tightly moralized chapter. PDF
- 24 Proverbs 24 ΚΔ′ Proverbs 24 gathers warning sayings about companionship, house-building, righteous resilience, rescue of the endangered, royal speech, truthful judgment, and the ruinous drift of sloth into a composite chapter of moral instruction. PDF
- 30 Proverbs 30 Λ′ Proverbs 30 differs from the surrounding chapters by moving from a first-person wisdom confession into prayer, numerical sayings, and vivid miniature observations about social inversion, small creatures, and regal bearing. PDF
- 31 Proverbs 31 ΛΑ′ In the Septuagint this final chapter falls into two linked movements: a mother’s instruction to a king about disciplined judgment, sober self-command, and advocacy for the weak, followed by an encomium of the strong wife whose labor, prudence, mercy, and public honor order an entire household. PDF
- 32 Proverbs 32 ΛΒ′ This chapter opens the Hezekian collection by explicitly attributing these sayings to the men of Hezekiah who copied Solomon's instruction, and the material that follows reflects that editorial turn: kingship, rank, measured speech, loyal friendship, restraint, and social prudence are all set under the discipline of timing and self-command. PDF
- 33 Proverbs 33 ΛΓ′ Proverbs 33 gathers sharp comparisons and ironic warnings about folly, laziness, rash speech, quarrels, deceit, and concealed hostility into a tightly linked sequence. PDF
- 34 Proverbs 34 ΛΔ′ Proverbs 34 moves through warnings against presumption, self-praise, jealousy, hidden hostility, displacement, rash speech, domestic strife, insatiable desire, incorrigible folly, and the instability of human power before turning to the durable wisdom of attentive stewardship. PDF
- 35 Proverbs 35 ΛΕ′ Proverbs 35 gathers sayings on fearless righteousness, fidelity to the law, the moral uses of wealth, parental instruction, honest judgment, oppression, royal conduct, and generosity toward the poor. PDF
- 36 Proverbs 36 ΛϚ′ This final tracked chapter in the current Proverbs sequence gathers sayings about correction, public joy or grief under rulers, sexual ruin, just kingship, traps in friendship, care for the poor, civic anger, discipline, trust, speech, servants, pride, oaths, fear of man, and divine judgment. PDF