Cm – The Second Collection of Solomon’s Proverbs 16:1 to 22:16

The Second Collection of Solomon’s Proverbs
16:1 to 22:16

The second part of this collection, 16:1 to 22:16, has 190 sayings, with sayings and proverbs from ADONAI with the king and the court being prominent themes. Only a few of the verses in this second section are contrasts; most of the verses are either comparisons (in synonymous parallelism) or completions (in synthetic parallelism), with the conjunction “and” introducing the second line in many of the verses (to see link click Ac – Proverbs from a Messianic Perspective: Parallelism). The frequent change of subject from one verse to another may be intentional to force readers to grapple with and meditate on the thoughts in one verse before moving on to the next. However, occasionally, two or more consecutive verses are linked by a common subject or word.