Those Who Love Proverbs
Questions for Study 9
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I. Wisdom's Invitation (9:1-12)
1. Is wisdom hidden from anyone? (1-3) What does wisdom say to those who lack judgment and why this? (4) What does wisdom say is required in order to receive the food and drink she offers?
2. Why is it wise to determine what should be and not be said to someone? (7-8) How is a person's response to the good news determined by their heart and mind-set? (9)
3. Who is the Holy One? (10) In the end who is cause of our life and eternal destiny? (11-12)
II. Folly's Invitation (9:13-27)
4. What is used to help define and explain folly? (13) What are the three traits of folly presented?
5. Is folly illusive? (14-15) Who traditionally sat at the door of a house and at the highest point of the city? What is folly's intent as presented in verse 15?
6. How is being simple defined here and the rest of Proverbs? (16) What does it mean to lack judgment? Why does folly concentrate her call to the simple who lack judgment?
7. What does folly promise? (17) What does these mean in practical daily living?
8. Who does not know that death are in deceptive promises? Are we to blame when we accept deceptive promises of folly living? (John 9:35-41; Romans 1:18-20)
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