CHAPTER ONE—BAD COMPANY AND GOOD COUNSEL PROVERBS 1:1–33 Scripture Outline Title (1:1) Purpose (1:2–6) Theme (1:7) Call to Attention (1:8–9) Warning Against Bad Company (1:10–18) Summary Appraisal (1:19) Wisdom’s Denunciation of Fools (1:20–31) Antithetic Summary (1:32–33) Israel’s teachers were persistently passionate in their concern to lead their students in the right path. They argued, badgered, reasoned, illustrated, pleaded, warned, and commanded in order to make their points. In short, they