- Do you notice any stylistic difference between Proverbs 10 and the preceding chapters? What is the particular style from Proverbs 10:3 to the end of the chapter?
- The phrase tzedakah tatzil mi-mavet, righteousness saves from death, in Proverbs 10:2 has been quoted by beggars at cemeteries for many generations. What does it mean in that context? What does it mean in the original context here?
- Are uniquely Jewish values expressed in most of the proverbs in this chapter?
- Does the wink of one’s eye (Proverbs 10:10) have a different connotation in our culture from what is implied here?
- In Proverbs 10:12, does the phrase, “love covers up all faults” convey the same connotation as the familiar saying, amor omnia vincit (love conquers all)?
- Does Proverbs 10:15 give the impression that wealth is a virtue and poverty is not?
- Is there an evident connection between the two halves of Proverbs 10:18? Of what precept in the TorahRefers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, also called the Five Books of Moses, Pentateuch or the Hebrew equivalent, Humash. This is also called the Written Torah. The term may also refer to teachings that expound on Jewish tradition. Read more is the first half of the verse reminiscent (see Leviticus 19:17)?
- Do you consider the contrast between the righteous and the wicked a credible teaching (Proverbs 10:20-25, Proverbs 10:27-32)?
- Explain the simile of the lazy man and smoke and vinegar (Proverbs 10:26).
- How does the reference to God in Proverbs 10:29 relate to the rest of the chapter?
