Study 17 From The Book of Proverbs Is: Proverbs
25:1-26:12
1. How does our Lord in one of His
parables adapt the teaching of 25:6, 7?
2. Observe in 25:8-28 how many
illustrations are given of the power and influence of words both to do good and
to do harm. Am I sufficiently careful in
this matter?
3. In what ways does the passage
26:1-12 enforce the familiar injunction, ‘Don’t be a fools’? Cf. Mt. 7:26;
23:17; 25:2; Lk. 11:40; 12:20; 24:25.
Note.
The ‘fool’ is one who is willfully unresponsive to the teaching of
divine wisdom, and going his own self-chosen way, hurts himself and others.
