Bulletin for Biblical Research (6) (1996) 15-22

the wisdom poems of chapters 1-9, which are a series of parental admoni-tions to the young adult.24 In like fashion, the purpose of the dense thicket. of sayings in chapters 10-29 is to instruct in the way of righteousness. Clustered at the beginning of this section is a series of proverbs on the _____ ................
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