Proverbs 22:17-21

III. Second Collection of Proverbs

Chap. Proverbs 22:17 to Proverbs 24:22

A short Preface or Introduction, Proverbs 22:17-21.

The body of the Collection, Proverbs 22:22 to Proverbs 24:22.

17 21. This short paragraph is at once a conclusion and an introduction, a pause in the continuous teaching of the same Teacher, in which he sums up what had gone before, and opens the way for further instruction. In our present Hebrew text there is no break between the 16th and 17th verses of this chapter, but there is a slight break, to which however no special importance can be attached, between the 21st and 22nd verses. The R.V. is so printed as to indicate the commencement of a new section at Proverbs 22:17, and of a fresh paragraph at Proverbs 22:22.

On the characteristics of the Section see Introduction, pp. 36, 37.