Read Proverbs 6 and 7 at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraph divisions:
6:1-5 {p} Deliver yourself if you have cosigned for someone else’s credit
6:6-11 {p} The wisdom of diligent labor
6:12-15 {p} A perverse mouth hides a wicked heart
6:16-19 {p} Seven abominations to the LORD
6:20-26 {p} Treasure the Torah; it will keep you from destruction wearing a beautiful face
6:27-35 {p} Adultery destroys a fool’s life
7:1-27 {p} Treasure YHVH’s commandments; they will keep you from the snare of seduction
Proverbs 6:20-7:27 forms a Chiastic Structure:
Let sons treasure up their father’s commandments, and even more so, let us, as children of the living God, treasure up in our hearts the commandments of our wise Father, with which He has instructed us for our good. Let us realize that for us, the one who entices us to sin with flattering lips, putting on a beautiful appearance, is satan, the enemy of our souls. He sets his snares with malice aforethought, in order to steal from us, kill or destroy us, if he can.
David loved YHVH, was filled with the Spirit, and prophesied mightily in songs of praise and worship. Yet, even though he had many wives, he still yielded to adultery with Bathsheba. David’s psalm of love for YHVH’s Torah, Psa 119, was written after he had repented and Solomon had been born. The realization of the depth of his sin and its consequences, and the excellency of Torah, if he had treasured its instruction, inspired much of his teaching to Solomon when he was young, which comes out in the Proverbs that Solomon wrote.
So, as these things were written for our instruction, we learn we need the Spirit, who is our vital breath of life in God, and just as much, we need to love and treasure the Torah, which is our vital bread of life (Mat 4:4), for he who loves YHVH God, loves and keeps His commandments, which proceed from His heart (Joh 14:15).
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