5 Tools for Interpreting Proverbs
- Interpret Proverbs by remembering what a proverb is.
- Brief
- Poetic
- Guide to godly living
- Interpret Proverbs as general principles, rather than unconditional promises.
- Interpret Proverbs recognizing that the proverbs generally fall into two literary forms.
- Instructions/commands
- Wisdom sayings
- Interpret Proverbs by understanding parallelism.
- Synonymous parallelism
- Antithetic parallelism
- Emblematic parallelism
- Synthetic parallelism
- Interpret Proverbs with the broader teaching of scripture.