Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Outline of Proverbs by Bruce K. Waltke

Waltke, Bruce K. The Book of Proverbs. Vol. 1 & 2. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2005.
http://www.christianbook.com/the-book-of-proverbs-2-volumes/bruce-waltke/pd/82725  


COLLECTION 1   (1.1-9.18)
A. Title with Preamble (1.1-7)
B. Preamble (1.8-8.36)
1.  Lecture 1: Exhortation to Listen and to Reject the Gang's Invitation (1.8-19)
     (a) Parent's Exhortation and a Son's Adornments. (1.8-9)
     (b) Resist the Gang's Invitation (1.10-19).
2. First Interlude: Wisdom's Rebuke of the Gullible (1.20-33)
      (a) The Setting of the sermon (20-21)
      (b) Wisdom's sermon (22-27)
      (c) Wisdom's reflection on Her Sermon (28-33) 
3. Lecture 2: Safeguard against the Wicked (2)
     (a) Introduction: Conditions (2:1-4)
     (b) Consequence: Protection (2.5-11)
     (c) Purpose of Protection (2.12-19)
     (d) Life on the Earth versus Death (2.20-22)
4. Lecture 3: The Lord's Promises and the Son's Obligations (3.1-12)
     (a) Introduction: Admonitions to Preserve the Father's Teaching (1-4)
     (b) Body: A Lesson in Piety: Trust, Fear, and Honor the Lord (5-10)
     (c) Conclusion: Do Not Reject the Lord's Discipline (11-12)
5. Lecture 4: The Value of Wisdom (3.13-35)
     (a) Exordium: The Value of Wisdom (13-26)
     (b) Lesson: Covenant Obligations to Neighbors (27-35)
6. Lecture 5: Get the Family Heritage  (4.1-9)
     (a) Introduction: Addressees and Admonitions (1-2)
     (b) The Lesson: The Grandfather's Lecture (3-9)
7. Lecture 6: Stay Off the Wrong Way (4.10-19)
     (a) Introduction and Body (10-13)
     (b) Conclusion (18-19)
8. Lecture 7: Don't Swerve from the Right Way (4.20-27)
     (a) Introduction: Keeping the Interior Anatomy (20-22)
     (b) Janus: Guard the Heart, the Source of All Behavior (23)
     (c) Lesson: Keep the Exterior Anatomy Fixed on What Is Right (24-27)
9. Lecture 8: Folly of Adultery, Wisdom of Marriage (5)
     (a) Introduction (1-6)
     (b) Lesson: Adultery vs. Marriage  (7-20) 
     (c) Conclusion (21-23)
10. Appendix: Three Inferior Types of men (6:1-19)
     (a) Warning against Becoming Surety (1-5)
     (b) Warning to the Sluggard (6-11)
     (c) Warning against the Insurrectionist (12-19)
11. Lecture 9: The High Price of an Unchaste Wife (6.20-35)

     (a) Introduction (20-21)
     (b) Lesson(22-35)
12. Lecture 10: The Unchaste Wife's Seductive Tactics (7.1-27
    (a) Introduction: Address and Admonition to Hear the Fathers Lecture (1-5)
     (b) Lesson: The Unchaste Wife's Seductive Tactics (6-23) encounter, speech, gullible's submission
     (c) Conclusion (34-27)
13. Interlude 2: Wisdom's Self-Praise to the Gullible (8)
     (a) Introduction (8.1-10)
     (b) Body/Lesson (8.12-31) 
                -Wisdom's communicable attributes
            -Wisdom's birth and celebration from primortal time
     (c) Conclusion: Final Invitation and Warning (8.32-36).
C. (14) Epilogue: Rival Banquets of Wisdom and Folly (9.1-18)
     (a) Wisdom's Banquet (9.1-6)
                 1. Wisdom's preparation
                 2. Wisdom's invitation
     (b) The Poet's Supplement to the Invitations (9.7-12)
     (c) Folly's Banquet (9.13-18)

COLLECTION 2: Solomon I  (10-22.16)
A. Collection 2A: Antithetic Parallels of the Righteous Versus the Wicked (10-15)
1. Superscription (1a) 
2. The Wise and Fool Defined by Their Comportment in Wealth and Speech (10.1b-16)
     (a) Introductory Educational Proverb (10.1b)
     (b)  Wisdom and Wealth (10.2-5)
     (c) Effects of Speech on the Self and Others (10.6-14)
     (d) Wealth and Security (10.15-16)
3. Deeds and Destinies of the Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted (10.17-11.31)
     (a) Introduction: Social Effects of Obedience(10.17)
     (b) Speech and Expectations of the righteous and the Wicked Contrasted (10.18-32)
     (c) Security through Honesty and Righteousness (11.1-8)
     (d) Janus: Security from Destructive Speech through Knowledge (11.9)
     (e) Words in Community (11.10-15)
     (f) Benevolence and Community (11.16-22)
     (g) Desires and Paradoxical Fulfillment (11.23-27)
     (h) Certain Gain or Loss (11.28-31)
4. Two Subunits on Speech and Deeds (12:1-28)
     (a) The First Subunit (1-14)  Introduction (1-3), Speech and One's Household (4-7), Deeds and Property (8-12), Janus Conclusion: Words and Deeds (13-14)
     (b) The Second Unit (12.15-28) Introduction (15), Wise and Foolish Speech (16-23), Diligent Work and Good speech (24-27), Conclusion (28) 
5. Good Teaching, Ethics, and Living (13:1-25)
     (a) Introduction (1)
     (b)Speech and Ethics (2-6)
     (c) Wealth and Ethics (7-11)
     (d) Fulfillment through Wisdom versus Frustration through Folly (12-19)
     (e) The Blessed Future of a Wise Son versus the Baneful End of Fools (20-25).

6. Living in Wisdom (14.1-32)
     (a) Walking in Wisdom (14.1-7)
     (b) Not Walking by Sight (14.8-15)
     (c) Contrasting Social Characterizations and Consequence (14.15-32) 
7. Upholding Righteousness with a Gentle Tongue (14. 33-15.4)
8. Importance of Instruction (15.5-19)
     (a) Consequences of Accepting or Rejecting Instruction (15.5-12)
     (b) The Overcomer's Superiority to Circumstances (15.13-19)
9. Consequences of Righteousness and Wickedness (15.20-29)
     (a) Joy in Education (15.20-23)
     (b) Janus (15.24)
     (c) Destinies of Righteous and the Wicked (15.25-29)

B. Collection 2B: The Lord and His King (15.30-22.16)
1. Prologue: The Dance between Humanity, the Lord , and His King (15.30-16:15)
    (a) Introduction (15.30-33)
    (b) The Lord's Rule (16.1-9)
    (c) The Mediatorial King (16.10-15)
2. Wise and Foolish Speech (16.16-30)
    (a) Introduction: Security and Wisdom (16.16-19)
    (b) The Wise Speaker (16.20-24)
    (c) The Foolish Speakers (16.25-30)
3. The Splendid Crown of Old Age through Righteousness (16.31-7.6)
4. A Collection of Proverbs on Fools (17.7-28)
    (a) Janus: Catalogue of Fools expanded (17.7-9)
    (b) Fools and Their Punishment (17.10-15)
    (c) The Fool versus the Friend (17.16-20)
    (d) The Fool, Injustice, and the Reserved Speech of the Wise (17.21-28) 
5. The Speech of Fools versus the Speech of the Wise (18.1-21)
   (a) The Fools Antisocial Speech versus the Defense of the Wise (18.1-11)
1) The Fool’s Antisocial Nature, Speech, and destiny  (1-9)
(a.) Intro: The Fool’s Alienation from Society
(b) The Fool’s Perverse Speech  (4-8)
(c) The Fool Plunders the community  (9)
2) Defence of the Righteous in the Lord (11-12)
   (b) Janus (18.12)
   (c) The Educated Person's Behavior in Conflict and His Speech (18.13-21)
1) The Incorrigable Fool versus the Teachable Wise (13-15)
2) Teachings about Justice and Conflicts  (16-19)
3) Teachings about he Power of Speech  (20-21)
6. Wealth and Wisdom in the Court and in the Home (18.22-19.23)
    (a) Poverty, Wealth, and Companions (18.22-19.7)
                       1) Intro (22)
                       2)Wealth and Failed Companions (23-24)
                      3) Wealth and Ethics  (1-3)
                      4) Wealth and Companions in Court (4-7)              
    (b) Wisdom in the Court and in the Home (19.8-15)
    (c) Educating the Son to Show Kindness to the Needy (19.16-22)
7. The Pedagogue and Punishment of Fools (19.23-20.11)
    (a) Introduction (19.23)
    (b) A Catalogue of Fo0ls and Their Punishment (19.24-20.1)
    (c) The Righteous King and Fools (20.2-11)
8. Speech and Commerce (20.12-19)
    (a) Introduction and Janus (20.12-13)
    (b) Body: Imprudent Speech in the Marketplace (20.14-17)
    (C) Conclusion: Accepting Wise Counsel (20.18-19)
9. Trusting the Lord to Avenge Wrongs through His Wise King (20.20-28)
    (a) Introduction: Honoring Parents (20.20-21)
    (b) Body: Trusting God, Not Self, to Avenge Wrong (20.22-25)
    (c) Conclusion: The King Judges the Wicked and Protects the Needy (20.26-28)
10. Doing Right and Justice (20.29-21.31)
    (a) Twofold Introduction (20.29-21.2)
    (b) Body: On Doing Righteousness and Justice (21.3-29)
    (c) Conclusion: The Lord's Sovereignty over People and Kingdoms (21.30-31)
11. Wealth and Moral Instruction (22.1-16)
    (a) The Lord's Sovereignty and Wealth (22.1-9)
    (b) Wealth and Moral Instruction (22.10-16)

COLLECTION 3: The Thirty Sayings of the Wise (22.17-24)
A. Prologue: Saying 1 (22.17-21)
B. Section A: A Decalogue of sayings about Wealth (22.22-23.11) [2-11]
# 2/22-23  Do not rob the poor.
# 3/24-25  No friendship with an angry man.
# 4/26-27  Avoid surety.
# 5/28        Don't move landmarks.
# 6/29        Men who excel stand before kings.
# 7/23.1-3  Avoid overeating with a ruler.
# 8/4-5       Don't overwork to be rich.
# 9/6-8       Don't a miser's offer of delicacies.
# 10/9         Fools will despise your wisdom.
# 11/10-11   Don't cheat the poor of their land.

C. Section B: An Obedient Son (23.22-24.2) [12-20]
# 12/12           Apply your heart to instruction.
# 13/13-14     Correct you child.
# 14/15-16     Wise sons make father's rejoice.
# 15/17-18     Don't envy sinners.
# 16/19-21     Do not mix with drunks or gluttons.
# 17/22-25    Listen to dad..
# 18/26-28    A seductress is trouble.
# 19/29-35    Don't drink too much.
# 20/24:1-2  Evil men are trouble.

D. Section C: Strength in Distress (24.3-12) [21-25]
#  21/3-4       Wisdom builds your house.
# 22/5-6        There is safety in counselors.
# 23/7            Wisdom is beyond a fool.
#  243/8-9    Scoffers are an abomination.
#25/10-12     Be strong in adversity.
E. Section D: Prohibitions against Involvement with the Wicked (24.13-22) [26-30]
#  26/13-14    Wisdom is like honey to your soul.
# 27/15-16     The righteous will rise again.
# 28/17-18    Don't rejoice when you enemy falls.
#  29/19-20  There is no future for the wicked.
#30/21-22     Don't associate with those given to change.
COLLECTION 4: Further Sayings of the Wise  (24.23-34)
A. Superscription (24.23a)
B. Judging at Court (24.23b-25)
C. Correct Speaking (24.26)
D. Positive behavior in Work (24.27)
E. Wrong Speaking (24.27)
F. Negative Behavior in Work (24.30-34)

COLLECTION 5: Solomon II  (25-29)
A. Superscription (25.1)
B. Section C (25.2-27.27)
    1. The Court Hierarchy and the Conflict of the Righteous and the Wicked (25.2-27).
    2. Seven Perverted Types of Humanity (25.28-26.28)
          Janus: The Person Who Lacks Self-control (25.28)
          The Fool (26.1-12)
          The Sluggard (26.13-16)
          The Busybody and Mischief Maker (26.17-19)
          The Slanderer (26.20-22)
          The Hateful Enemy (26.23-28)

    3. About Friends and Friendship (27.1-22)
          First Instructions of Friends and Friendships (27.1-10)
          Second Instructions of Friends and Friendships (27.11-21)
          Janus (27.22).

C. Section D (28.1-29-27)
    1. A Relationship to tora as a Measure for Ruling and Gaining Wealth (28.1-11).
          a. Introductory Framing Proverb (28.1)
          b. First Subunit: tôrâ and Righteous Government (28.2, 3, 4-5, 6)
          c. Second Subunit: tôrâ and Righteous Government  (28.7-11)
    2. The Importance of One's Relationship with God for ruling and Gaining Wealth (28.12-27)
          a. Introductory Framing Proverb (28.12)
          b. The Lord and the Ruler (28.13-14, 15-16, 17-18)
          c. Wealth and Hard Word versus Haste (28:19-20, -27)
          d.
          e. Concluding Framing Proverb (28.28)
    3. Center Line: Sudden Death for the Hard-hearted (29.1)
    4. Rearing and Ruling Proved Worthwhile in Dealing with the Poor (29.2-15)
          a. Introductory Proverb (29.2)
          b. Joy and Stability through Righteousness (19.3, 4,
    5. Rearing and One's Relationship with God (29.16-27)


COLLECTION 6: The Sayings of Agur Son of Jakeh (30)

A. Introduction (30.1-9)
    1. Superscription (30.1a)
    2. Agur's Autobiographical Confession (30.1b-9)
B. Main Body: Seven Numerical Sayings (30.10-31)
    1. First Unit: Renouncing Greed (30.10-16)
    2. Second Unit: The Wisdom of Living within Boundaries (30.17-31)
C. Conclusion: A Warning not to Upset the Divine Order (30.32-33).

COLLECTION 7: The Sayings of Lemuel  (31)
A. Superscription (31.1)
B. The Noble King (31.2-9)
C. The Valiant Wife (31.10-31)
    1. Introduction (31.10-12)
    2. Body (31.13-27)
    3. Conclusion (31.28-31)
Waltke, Bruce K. The Book of Proverbs. Vol. 1 & 2. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2005.
http://www.christianbook.com/the-book-of-proverbs-2-volumes/bruce-waltke/pd/82725 

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