of D. Pardee concentrates on literary features, such as parallelism and chiasmus, etc., he does indicate a division based on a thematic basis (Parallelism, 70–71). There is a basic instruction on how a son may acquire wisdom (Vv 1–11); a statement of the effects of wisdom (Vv 12–19), and a conclusion in form of promise and warning. Further subdivisions follow, but the whole chapter is treated as a unit. Whybray’s hypothesis of ten instructions leads to a dislocation in chap. 2; thus he discerns a
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