Proverbs study section
Proverbs key people
Solomon, the sages, Agur, and Lemuel, with Wisdom and Folly personified, frame the call to wisdom.
Key figures
Solomon
The son of David, wisest of kings, author of most of the book’s proverbs
The wise (the sages)
Israel’s teachers of wisdom, whose “words of the wise” are gathered in the book
Agur son of Jakeh
The humble sage whose reflections and numerical sayings make up chapter 30
King Lemuel
The king who records his mother’s counsel and the poem of the excellent wife in chapter 31
Lady Wisdom
Wisdom personified as a gracious woman calling in the streets, present with God at creation
Woman Folly
Folly personified, and the “forbidden woman,” who lures the simple to death
The father and son
The teacher and pupil of chapters 1-9, framing wisdom as instruction handed down in love
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