Chapter 7 continues a collection of proverbs that ends in chapter nine.
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##### 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/translate/figs-parallelism]])
Many of the proverbs are stated as promises or commands, but they are intended to be advice.
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.
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