Another continuous exhortation rather than a collection of maxims.

(Proverbs 23:16) The teacher rejoices when the disciple’s hea…

They have stricken me, and I was not sick.— The drunken man feels no blows or ill-treatment.

When shall…

They have stricken me, [you shall say, and] I was not sick ,
&c.] Or "grieved not" ^F24 ; or was not wound…

Solomon warns against drunkenness. Those who would be kept from sin must avoid all its beginnings and fear coming within reach of its allurements. …