“Wisdom And Encouraging Words” Lesson Text: Proverbs 15 – 17: Series: Wisdom From Above: Adult Quarterly Sunday School Fall Quarter 2005 September, October, November:
Key Verse: Proverbs 15:1:
King James Translation: “A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
Interlinear Translation: “An answer soft turns away wrath: but a word of pain lifts up anger.”
Strong’s Concordance Translation: “A SOFT = tender, by implication weak, fainthearted, soft, tender hearted, to soften, mollify, make softer, be tender. ANSWER = a reply, to eye, to heed, i.e. pay attention, by implication to respond, by extension to begin to speak, specially to sing, shout, testify, announce, give account, afflict, bring low, bear witness. TURNETH AWAY = to turn back, away, to retreat, circumcise, pervert, recompense, withdraw. WRATH = heat, anger, poison, hot displeasure, indignation, poison, rage, to be hot, figuratively to conceive, get heat, be hot, be warm. BUT GRIEVOUS = an earthen vessel, usually painful toil, usually a pang whether of mind or body, idol, labor, sorrow, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion, hence in a bad sense to worry, pain or anger, displease, hurt, worship, wrest. WORDS = a matter or thing, a cause, affair, answer, business, care, case, cause, chronicles, concern, counsel, disease, duty, effect, harm, hurt, iniquity, lying, manner, matter, message, request, reason. STIR UP = to ascend, be high, arise, ascend up, break the day up, cause to burn, cut off, exalt, increase, make to pay, recover, restore, make to rise up, scale, take away up. ANGER = the nose or nostril, hence the face and occasionally a person, also from the rapid breathing in passion, ire, suffering, nose, nostril, snout.
Lesson Focus: Proverbs 15:1-4, 22, 23, 28, 30-33; 17:27, 28:
V1: The Pacification.
V2: The Pouring.
V3: The Presence.
V4: The Perverseness.
V22: The Purposes.
V23: The Pronouncement.
V28: The Pondering.
V30: The Position.
V31: The Profit.
V32: The Proof.
V33: The Process.
V27: The Practice.
V28: The Peace.