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Proverbs 7 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.