{"id":48734,"date":"2021-04-29T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T23:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/blog\/?p=48734"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T22:54:44","slug":"who-was-proverbs-31-written-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olivetree.com\/blog\/who-was-proverbs-31-written-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Was Proverbs 31 Written To?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I was in youth group, the boys were told to find themselves a Proverbs 31<\/a> woman and the girls were told to be a Proverbs 31 woman, and that was the end of it. This reading of the end of Proverbs isn’t necessarily wrong. In fact, I ended up finding my own Prov 31 woman. However, by limiting our understanding of Proverbs 31 to the character of women in human relationships, we can miss out on personal growth, the real point of the passage, and of the entire book of Proverbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following is an excerpt from the New Interpreter’s One Volume Commentary<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woman Wisdom as Wife (31:10-31<\/a>)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An acrostic in Hebrew, starting with ‘aleph<\/em> each verse begins with the next consonant of the alphabet; the poem describes either an ideal woman or wife or returns the reader to the concept of Woman Wisdom from chapters 1-9 (or perhaps has both meanings in mind).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an ideal wife, this woman is<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n