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Proverbs 07 General Notes
Structure and formatting
Chapter 7 continues a collection of proverbs that ends in chapter nine.
Special concepts in this chapter
####Parallelism
Proverbs are often written without any surrounding context and in two lines of text. Each line will have a certain relationship to the other line. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism)
Many of the proverbs are stated as promises or commands, but they are intended to be advice.
####My Son
Occasionally the author addresses a proverb to "my son." This is not intended to restrict the words of that proverb to only males, but is still given in the context of a father warning his son.
####Adulteress
This chapter continues the theme about the adulteress and warns the young man to avoid her.