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1st couplet

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Address - “my son”
Command- “Don’t forget my law”
Value of the instruction-Long life on earth

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2nd Couplet

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Prohibition- do not let kindness and truth leave you
Command - bind it around your neck
Motive-Brings acceptance from both God and man

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3rd couplet

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  • Trust
  • do not lean
  • the command of the twofold
  • warning against self-deception
  • warning against trusting your heart
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4th couplet

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Commands:
-don't think you are wise
-Fear God
-refuse to do wrong 
Motive:
literal translation is healed naval
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5th couplet

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Command:
-honor the Lord with your first fruits
Motive:
Your vats will overflow?

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6th couplet

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Prohibition: Do not resist
Prosperity is a blessing from the Lord
Adversity is also a blessing from the Lord
Motive: It is just as difficult for a believer to accept disciplines from the Lord as it is a child from his father

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Benefits of Wisdom

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  • Wisdom offers her gifts to anyone who will take them
  • Taking them involves marrying her
  • When we honour God, he honours us
  • Man usually defines happiness in materialistic terms
  • God never does, because materialism does not make a person truly happy
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Wisdom & Creation

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  • God used wisdom to make and run the world

- It is vital for us to have wisdom in order to occupy and subdue the earth

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Prohibition Against Fear

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Prohibition- do not be afraid of sudden fear

Motive- there are no hidden obstacles or traps to catch our feet

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Prohibition Concerning Ethics #1

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“Don’t withhold good from ‘lords’ when it is in the ‘god’ of your hand to do
-Most scholars believe this teaches punctuality in paying bills or generosity to the poor

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PCE#2

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“If not now, when? If not here, where? If not I,who?

-who is my neighbour?

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PCE#3

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  • enemy should not trust us, but a neighbour should

- To plot a crime against a friend is a double crime

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PCE#4

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  • Unnecessary arguing

- Certain people love to argue

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PCE#5

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  • warning against jealousy
  • man of violence may, and often does prosper
  • however he unjustly gained wealth, therefore he does not covet