{ "schema_version": "ot_lite_book_index_v1", "generated_at": "2026-05-11T03:25:14Z", "testament": "Old Testament", "book": "Proverbs", "book_slug": "proverbs", "unit_count": 22, "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/index.json", "in_depth_book_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/", "book_overview_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/book-overviews/proverbs/", "summary": "Proverbs teaches practical wisdom under the fear of the LORD, shaping character, speech, work, family life, justice, and discernment.", "units": [ { "custom_id": "PRO_001", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 1:1-7", "title": "The prologue and purpose of Proverbs", "main_point": "Proverbs opens by explaining why the book was given: to train God’s people in wise, disciplined, morally upright living. True knowledge begins with the fear of the LORD, while folly reveals itself by rejecting wisdom and correction.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_001/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_001.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_001.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_002", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 1:8-19", "title": "Warning against the enticement of sinners", "main_point": "A child within God’s covenant people must listen to wise parental instruction and refuse the invitation of violent sinners. Their offer of belonging and easy gain may look attractive, but it is a path of unjust bloodshed that destroys those who pursue it.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_002/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_002.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_002.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_003", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 1:20-33", "title": "Wisdom's first public call", "main_point": "Wisdom publicly calls people to receive correction and live in the fear of the LORD. Those who keep refusing her rebuke will finally eat the bitter fruit of their own way, while those who listen will live in settled security under God’s wise rule.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_003/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_003.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_003.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_004", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 2:1-22", "title": "Seek wisdom and discernment", "main_point": "Wisdom must be received, treasured, prayed for, and pursued, yet it is ultimately the Lord who gives it. Those who embrace his wisdom learn the fear of the Lord, are guarded from wicked paths and sexual sin, and are led in the way of life within God’s covenant moral order.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_004/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_004.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_004.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_005", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 3:1-12", "title": "Trust Yahweh and receive his discipline", "main_point": "Proverbs 3:1-12 calls the child to keep covenant-shaped wisdom in the heart, trust Yahweh rather than self, honor him with possessions, and receive his discipline as fatherly love. The blessings described are real wisdom patterns in God’s ordered world, not mechanical guarantees of ease, wealth, or health.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_005/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_005.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_005.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_006", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 3:13-35", "title": "The value and way of wisdom", "main_point": "Wisdom is worth more than wealth because it comes from the LORD, fits the world he made, and leads in the way of life, peace, and honor. Those who hold fast to wisdom must show it in generosity, honesty, neighbor-love, and humility, because the LORD blesses the righteous and opposes the wicked and proud.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_006/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_006.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_006.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_007", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 4:1-9", "title": "A father commends wisdom", "main_point": "A father urges his children to receive, keep, and love wisdom because wisdom leads to life, protection, and honor. Wisdom is not optional; it is the chief pursuit that must shape the heart and govern every other gain.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_007/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_007.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_007.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_008", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 4:10-19", "title": "The path of the righteous and the wicked", "main_point": "A father urges his child to receive wisdom, hold it tightly, and stay far from the path of the wicked. Wisdom is a life-giving path that grows clearer, while wickedness is restless, violent, dark, and self-destructive.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_008/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_008.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_008.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_009", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 4:20-27", "title": "Guard the heart and the way", "main_point": "God’s wisdom must be heard, kept, and guarded in the heart, because the heart directs the whole life. When wisdom governs the inner person, it shapes speech, attention, decisions, and the path one walks.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_009/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_009.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_009.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_010", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 5:1-23", "title": "Warning against the adulteress", "main_point": "The father urges his son to receive wisdom so he will flee the seductive destruction of adultery and rejoice in faithful marriage. Sexual sin promises sweetness, but it ends in bitterness, shame, bondage, and death under the Lord’s all-seeing moral judgment.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_010/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_010.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_010.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_011", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 6:1-19", "title": "Warnings against folly and wickedness", "main_point": "Wisdom warns God’s people to avoid rash financial entanglements, laziness, and deceitful wickedness. The Lord cares about ordinary life—our words, work, motives, and relationships—and he hates the sins that destroy truth, justice, and peace.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_011/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_011.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_011.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_012", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 6:20-35", "title": "Adultery and its consequences", "main_point": "God’s wisdom must be kept close to the heart because it guards life. Here parental instruction warns especially against lust and adultery, destructive covenant sins with consequences that cannot simply be undone.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_012/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_012.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_012.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_013", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 7:1-27", "title": "The seduction of the simple man", "main_point": "Proverbs 7 teaches that wisdom must be treasured in the heart before temptation arrives. The naive young man drifts toward danger, listens to seductive words, and walks onto a path that appears pleasurable but leads to death.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_013/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_013.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_013.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_014", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 8:1-36", "title": "Wisdom personified", "main_point": "Wisdom calls openly to all people, offering truth, righteousness, life, and favor from the LORD. To receive wisdom is to live in line with God’s created order and holy fear; to reject wisdom is to harm oneself and choose the way of death.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_014/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_014.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_014.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_015", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 9:1-18", "title": "Wisdom and folly contrasted", "main_point": "Proverbs 9 presents Wisdom and Folly as two women offering two invitations. Wisdom calls the simple to fear the LORD, receive correction, abandon foolishness, and live. Folly offers secret pleasure, but her path ends in death.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_015/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_015.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_015.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_016", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 10:1-22:16", "title": "The proverbs of Solomon", "main_point": "Proverbs 10:1–22:16 teaches the moral shape of life under the Lord. Wisdom, righteousness, truth, diligence, humility, justice, and the fear of the Lord lead toward life and stability, while folly, deceit, laziness, pride, violence, and greed lead toward ruin. These are covenantal wisdom patterns, not mechanical guarantees.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_016/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_016.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_016.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_017", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 22:17-24:22", "title": "The sayings of the wise", "main_point": "These sayings train God’s people to receive wisdom deeply and practice it in ordinary life. Wisdom rests in confidence in the LORD and shows itself in justice, self-control, teachability, family faithfulness, wise friendships, truthful speech, and enduring hope.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_017/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_017.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_017.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_018", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 24:23-34", "title": "Further sayings of the wise", "main_point": "Wise living honors God’s order through impartial justice, truthful speech, refusal of personal revenge, prudent priorities, and diligent stewardship. Small patterns of neglect may seem harmless, but laziness steadily brings visible ruin and serious loss.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_018/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_018.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_018.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_019", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 25:1-29:27", "title": "The Hezekiah collection of Solomonic proverbs", "main_point": "This Hezekiah-era collection preserves Solomonic wisdom for ordered life under Yahweh. It teaches humility, truthful speech, self-control, diligence, correction, mercy, justice, and righteous leadership, while exposing the ruin caused by folly, pride, deceit, laziness, greed, anger, bloodguilt, and wicked rule.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_019/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_019.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_019.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_020", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 30:1-33", "title": "The words of Agur", "main_point": "Agur teaches that true wisdom begins with humble recognition of human limits and confident trust in God’s pure word. Proverbs 30 warns against pride, greed, deceit, dishonoring parents, exploitation, adultery, and anger, while commending truthfulness, contentment, restraint, and careful observation of God’s ordered world.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_020/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_020.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_020.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_021", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 31:1-9", "title": "The words of King Lemuel", "main_point": "King Lemuel’s mother teaches that royal power must be governed by wisdom, self-control, and justice. A king must not spend his strength in self-indulgence or dull his judgment with drink, but must speak and judge for the poor, the needy, and the voiceless.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_021/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_021.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_021.html" }, { "custom_id": "PRO_022", "passage_ref": "Proverbs 31:10-31", "title": "The excellent wife", "main_point": "Proverbs 31:10-31 presents an ideal portrait of a wife of noble character whose life is shaped by the fear of the LORD. Her wisdom is displayed in trustworthy love, diligent stewardship, generous mercy, wise speech, and faithful care for her household and community.", "html_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/pro_022/", "json_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/data/commentary/old-testament-lite/proverbs/PRO_022.json", "in_depth_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/commentary/old-testament/proverbs/PRO_022.html" } ] }