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Proverbs 24 Bible study: According to his work
"Shall he not give to every man according to his work?" (24:12) and "I will repay the man according to his work" (24:29) use the same Hebrew verb and the same word for work: the repaying you are told not to say you will do, the chapter says of him who weighs the hearts. And the righteous falls too: he "falls seven times and rises up again" (24:16).
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“for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.”
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“Proverbs 24:16 says a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again.”
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Where one collection ends and another begins
This chapter holds the end of one part of the book and a short part of its own. The part that began "Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise" (Proverbs 22:17) runs on to 24:22, and its voice still speaks to "My son" (24:13, 24:21). Its last saying begins, "My son, fear the LORD and the king" (24:21). Then comes a new heading: "These also are sayings of the wise" (24:23). The book doesn't say who the wise were, and these notes don't either. The first of these sayings is about judging: "To show partiality in judgment is not good" (24:23) (tap partiality). And the part ends with something the speaker saw for himself: "I went by the field of the sluggard" (24:30), and "Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction" (24:32).
Honest questions
Questions people ask about Proverbs 24
- "Rescue those who are being led away to death!" (24:11). Who are they, and what is the next verse answering?
- "lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him" (24:18). Is the reason not to gloat so that your enemy still gets what he deserves?
- "a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again" (24:16). Is it about falling into sin?
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- What builds a house
- The words for repaying
- "Don’t be envious"
- Sayings heard before
- "Fear God. Honor the king."
- What the speaker saw
- 13 questions as you read
- 14 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
שׁוּבshuvsay SHOOV
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "turn back, return", and in the causative form, "cause to return, bring back"; among that form's senses it gives "give in payment, requital" and "pay as recompense". Strong's: "to turn back". The chapter has it four times, each in the causative form, and the WEB gives it four ways: "Shall he not give to every man according to his work?" (24:12), "and he turn away his wrath from him" (24:18), "An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips" (24:26), and "I will repay the man according to his work" (24:29). In 24:12 and 24:29 the verb comes with the same word, kefo'olo, according to his work (tap work). The words for repaying that 24:29 tells you not to say, 24:12 uses of him who weighs the hearts. Proverbs has the verb 23 times in Hebrew. It isn't the verb of "Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”" (Proverbs 20:22), which the notes on Proverbs 20 look at.
For your group
Proverbs 24 Bible study questions
- 1Twice the chapter says don't be envious of evil men or the wicked (24:1, 24:19). Why do you think wrongdoing can look worth envying, and what helps you see past it?
- 2"Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls" (24:17). Why can it be hard not to be glad when someone who has wronged you has trouble, and what helps?
- 3The speaker went by a field full of thorns and said, "I saw, and received instruction" (24:32). What have you learned from something you saw, without having to go through it yourself?
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