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Who are the speakers of Proverbs 1-9?
Lemuel
Woman Wisdom
Woman Folly
a father
King Hezekiah
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In Proverbs 1–9 the main voices are:
- A father (the parental speaker who addresses “my son” throughout 1–7 and elsewhere; e.g. 1:8; 4:1)
- Personified Woman Wisdom (speaks especially in ch. 8 and in invitations like 1:20–33)
- Personified Woman Folly (the strange/wanton woman in ch. 9 and earlier warnings, e.g. 9:13–18; cf. warnings about the adulteress in ch. 5)
Not speakers in 1–9:
- Lemuel (he appears only in Proverbs 31:1)
- King Hezekiah (his men are said to have copied some later proverbs—see 25:1—but he does not speak in 1–9)
(You can also think of the book’s narrator/attribution to Solomon at the start, but the actual spoken sections in 1–9 are the father and the personified Wisdom/Folly.)
- A father (the parental speaker who addresses “my son” throughout 1–7 and elsewhere; e.g. 1:8; 4:1)
- Personified Woman Wisdom (speaks especially in ch. 8 and in invitations like 1:20–33)
- Personified Woman Folly (the strange/wanton woman in ch. 9 and earlier warnings, e.g. 9:13–18; cf. warnings about the adulteress in ch. 5)
Not speakers in 1–9:
- Lemuel (he appears only in Proverbs 31:1)
- King Hezekiah (his men are said to have copied some later proverbs—see 25:1—but he does not speak in 1–9)
(You can also think of the book’s narrator/attribution to Solomon at the start, but the actual spoken sections in 1–9 are the father and the personified Wisdom/Folly.)
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