The Disciplines of a Child According to the Proverbs of Solomon

A written report

Presented to

Prof. Eduardo Lapicto

College of Teacher Education

Values Education Instructor

In partial fulfilment

of all the requirements

in Values Education

by

DULNUAN, Charity Joy

GUMIHID, May Crisline

NA-AG, Cretchel

SUNIEN,

March 2, 2010
 The Discipline Of A Child According To The Proverbs Of Solomon

INTRODUCTION

The Book of Proverbs

Author: Solomon, with Portions by Agur and King Lemuel

Date: About 950 B.C. with Portions About 950 B.C.

Theme:

Keywords:
Content: The Book of Proverbs is not just a collection of sayings, but a collections
of collections. Its unifying thought or theme is, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom” (9:10), appearing in another form as, “The fear of the Lord is the
beginning [or principal part] of knowledge” (1:17).

Coming through the diversity of examples time and again are such truths as these:

1. Wisdom is the most valuable of assets.

2. Wisdom is available to anyone but the price is high.

3. Wisdom originates in God, not self, and comes by attention to instruction.

4. Wisdom and righteousness go together. It is good to be wise, and it is wise to be

good.

5. Evil men suffer the consequences of their evil deeds.

6. The simple, the fool, the lazy, the ignorant, the proud, the profligate, the sinful
are never to be admired.

Personal Application: The wisdom contained in the Book of Proverbs is as

meaningful today as when it was written. Yet it is neither a prosperity pamphlet nor
a “how to succeed” handbook in the worldly sense. It tells rather how to order one’s
values, which leads to character, which leads to wholeness, which leads to
satisfaction. It warns of the pitfalls along the way, and declares the folly of not
developing the fear of the Lord.

Unique Features:

The book is different from all other in the Bible in these respects:

1. It gives clear internal evidence of multiple authorship. This is deduced or implied

in some other Bible books, but never revealed so plainly as in Proverbs.

2. It also shows clear internal evidence of having been put together over the
amazing span of about 250 years, since Hezekiah, mentioned in 25:1, lived about
that long after King Solomon. Other books (like Genesis, for example) may cover
long historical spans of time, but none of them so clearly indicate the span of their
composition.
 Outline of Proverbs

(taken from the New King James Version of the Spirit Filled Life Bible)

I. Introduction 1:1-7
A. Title, purpose and introduction 1:1-6
B. Theme or motto 1:7
II. A father’s warnings and Wisdom’s admonitions 1:8-8:36
A. A father’s warnings, part one 1:8-19
B. Wisdom’s admonitions, part one 1:20-33
C. A father’s warnings, part two 2:1-7:27
D. Wisdom’s admonition, part two 8:1-36
III.The way of wisdom versus the way of folly 9:1-18
IV. Solomon’s proverbs and sayings of the wise 10:1-29:27
A. Solomon’s proverbs-first collection 10:1-22:16
B. Sayings of the wise-first collection 22:17-24:22
C. Sayings of the wise-second collection 24:23-34
D. Solomon’s proverbs-second collection 25:1-29:27
(by Hezekiah’s men)
V. Agur’s proverbs 30:1-33
A. The life of God-fearing moderation 30:1-14
B. The observed wonders of life on Earth 30:15-31
C. The foolishness of pride and anger 30:32, 33
VI. King Lemuel’s proverbs 31:1-31
A. A mother’s standards for a noble son 31:1-9
B. An acrostic poem on the perfect wife 31:10-31

Proverb- from the verb mashal (mah-shahl) meaning “to compare; to be similar”.

- A short saying containing a nugget of truth.

The purposes of the proverbs:

1. To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding. (1:2)

2. To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity.(1:3)
3. To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. (1:4)
4. To hear and increase learning and attain wise counsel. (1:5)
5. To understand a proverb and an enigma, the words of the wise and their riddles. (1:6)

Theme: Proverbs 1:7

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,

 But fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

The Disciplines of A Child

1. To be wise-12:23,26, 13:16,20
2. To be diligent-10:4, 12:11,24,27, 13:4
3. To plan ahead-10:5
4. To accept commands(instruction)-10:8, 12:1,13:18,24
5. To heed discipline/keeps instruction-10:17, 11:12, 13:1,3,13
6. To train the mouth and tongue-10:11, 19-21, 31-32, 11:9,11, 13,22, 12:5-6,13-14,17-
19, 22,25, 14:3,
7. To love-10:12
8. To abstain from evil deeds be righteous instead-10:23, 11:5, 7-8,18-21, 23, 27-29,
12:7,8, 20-21, 13, 9,21,25
9. To be honest-11:1, 12:2,13:5, 11,17, 14:5
10. To be humble-11:2, 13:10
11. To be faithful-11:3, 13:15
12. To listen to advices and counsels-11:14, 12:15, 13:10
13. To be gracious-11:16
14. To be forgiving-12:16(temper)
15. To be generous-11:24-26
16. To fear the Lord-14:2