Proverbs Videos

What this page covers

Where the videos go in Proverbs

The videos here take Proverbs as a whole rather than one passage at a time, so this is the ground they cover: “Wisdom Shouts in the Street”, “Solomon’s Sentences”, “A Good Name Is Rather to Be Chosen”, “Sayings of the Wise”, “As Iron Sharpeneth Iron” and “Agur’s Questions and a Woman Worth Praising”.

Wisdom Shouts in the Street (Proverbs 1–9). A father talks to a son, and the first warning is about friends who say come with us, let us lie in wait for blood. Wisdom is not a private hobby here. She stands at the gates shouting, builds a house, kills her meat and sets a table, and calls the simple in. Across the road another woman calls from her own door with honey on her lips, and these chapters keep the two invitations side by side.

Agur’s Questions and a Woman Worth Praising (Proverbs 30–31). Agur says he is too stupid to know God, then lists what he does notice: ants who store food in summer, locusts with no king who march in rank, a lizard you can catch in your hand that lives in palaces. A mother tells her son not to give his strength to women or his judgement to wine, and to open his mouth for those who cannot speak. The book closes on a woman who buys a field, trades at a profit, works past midnight, and is praised at the gate.