Doctrine Analysis

Proverbs (Paj Lug) — Doctrine Analysis

Part A: Doctrine Risk Matrix

The core passage, Proverbs 3:1-12, functions as the theological anchor for this Language Package: it is the single densest concentration of assigned-doctrine material in the book, touching six of the seven doctrines directly (Fear of the LORD, 3:7; Trust in the LORD’s Providence, 3:5-6; Practical Righteousness, 3:9-10, 3:33-adjacent; Discipline/fatherly correction as an expression of wisdom-formation, 3:11-12; Wisdom’s worth, 3:13-18 immediately following) and touching the seventh (Wise/Fool contrast) by implication (the “wise” path of 3:1-12 versus the fool’s rejection of instruction assumed throughout chs. 1-9). It is the interpretive gateway to the whole book but — per the full-coverage mandate — never the boundary of scope; every chapter 1-31 is analyzed in Part B below.

#	Doctrine	Supporting Passages (Paj Lug)	Risk Level	Translation Risk Summary	Review Routing
1	The Fear of the Lord as the Beginning of Wisdom	1:7; 2:5; 3:7; 8:13; 9:10; 14:26-27; 15:33; 19:23; 31:30	Critical	`kev hwm thiab ntshai Vajtswv` collides with `kev ntshai dab` (servile dread of capricious, ritually-appeasable spirits/ancestors). Must always be co-taught with `Leej Txiv` (filial Fatherhood) and `cia siab rau tus Tswv` (trust) so the “fear” is reverential covenant awe, not propitiatory terror. Forms the book’s opening/closing inclusio (1:7/31:30); a collapse here compromises the interpretive key to the entire book.	Human theologian
2	Wisdom Personified	1:20-33; 3:19-20; 8:1-21; 8:22-31; 9:1-6	Critical	`Tus Tswvyim` risks syncretistic assimilation into Hmong female ancestral/household-spirit veneration (`dab poj niam`), which is structurally analogous (an authoritative female figure who speaks, calls, and must be heeded or ignored at peril). The 8:22 qanah crux carries unresolved proto-Christological (Logos) weight that must not be resolved unilaterally in generated content.	Human theologian
3	Practical Righteousness in Daily Life	3:9-10; 3:33; 10:2; 10:6-7; 11:1; 11:18-19; 12:2-3; 14:34; 21:3; 21:21; 29:6-7	High	The retributive wisdom-order (righteous/honoring conduct → material reward, esp. 3:9-10) sits directly on the Hmong offering-for-blessing exchange logic (`fij dab`, `fij xwm kab`): give to a spirit, mechanically receive protection/prosperity. Must be taught as covenant-order generosity flowing from a Father’s free favor, never formulaic ritual payment. `ncaj ncees` here is the achieved-practical sense — theologically CORRECT in Proverbs but the very sense flagged Critical/forbidden-default in the Romans baseline’s forensic-imputation context; the two registers must be kept explicit and distinct in any cross-book curriculum.	Human theologian
4	The Contrast of the Wise and the Fool	1:7; 1:22; 9:1-18; 10:1; 10:8; 10:14; 12:15-16; 13:16; 14:16; 17:24-25; 18:2; 26:1-12	Medium	Core wise/fool vocabulary (`txawj ntse` / `ruam`) is already stable in Hmong Christian usage; intermediate categories (simple `peti`, scoffer `letz`) are comprehension-level distinctions, not collisions. Residual risk: the abstract noun `tswvyim` (wisdom) used across these antithetic couplets carries the High-risk shamanic-cunning ambiguity (bare cleverness/craft) documented in the core glossary (PR-B) and must be anchored `ntawm Vajtswv` whenever wisdom-as-attribute (not merely “a wise person”) is invoked.	Native speaker
5	Speech and Self-Control	6:16-19; 10:19-21; 12:18-19; 13:3; 15:1-4; 18:21; 25:11; 25:28; 26:20-22	High	Hmong traditional religion holds spoken words (formal curses/blessings) to have direct ritual/spiritual efficacy on the spirit world. Proverbs 18:21 (“death and life are in the power of the tongue”) risks assimilation into this magical-speech framework rather than being understood as ethical-relational wisdom about how speech shapes character and community over time. The companion self-control doctrine (25:28, “restraint of spirit”) risks a ritual-willpower/charm reading rather than Spirit-enabled character formation.	Human theologian
6	Diligence versus Sloth	6:6-11; 10:4-5; 12:24; 12:27; 13:4; 19:15; 20:4; 21:5; 23:4-5; 24:30-34; 27:23-27; 28:19; 31:10-31	Medium	Core vocabulary (`kev nquag` / `tus tub nkeeg`) is an already-stable, positive Hmong agrarian value — a comprehension matter, not a collision. Residual risk: Proverbs simultaneously commends diligence as the path to provision (10:4-5) and warns against toiling merely to get rich (23:4-5); flattened teaching could produce a prosperity-formula reading that echoes the High-risk collision already flagged for Doctrine 3 and for the `koob hmoov` (blessing) term.	Native speaker
7	Trust in the Lord’s Providence	3:5-6; 16:1-3; 16:9; 16:33; 19:21; 20:24; 21:1; 28:25-26; 29:25	Critical	Hmong cosmology’s impersonal fate/fortune concept (`hmoov`) is unalterable by the individual and assigned by ancestors/spirits/cosmic forces. If the LORD’s personal, purposeful governance of events and hearts (16:9; 21:1) is rendered or heard through `hmoov`-adjacent vocabulary, it collapses into fatalism, eliminating the relational, trust-based reliance the doctrine requires — identical in structure to the Romans baseline’s Critical collision for `kev xaiv`/election. A second, distinct collision point is the casting-of-lots passage (16:33), which risks validating ongoing Hmong divinatory practice rather than affirming God’s sovereignty over a historically-bounded, sanctioned ancient mechanism.	Human theologian

Part B: Full-Book Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage Log

Per the full-coverage mandate, every chapter of Proverbs (1-31) is logged below. Chapters that contribute no new doctrinal or terminological content beyond what is already captured in Part A / the core glossary are explicitly marked “Reviewed — no new load-bearing content” rather than silently omitted.

Ch.	Doctrines Touched	Key Passages / Terms	Coverage Note
1	1 (Fear of LORD), 2 (Wisdom Personified), 4 (Wise/Fool)	1:7 (inclusio opening); 1:20-33 (Wisdom calls in the street); 1:22 (simple/scoffer/fool trio, PR-M/PR-N)	Establishes the book’s programmatic thesis (1:7) and first appearance of personified Wisdom; foundational for Doctrines 1, 2, 4.
2	1, 3 (Practical Righteousness), 7 (Providence, minor)	2:5 (fear of LORD); 2:2-11 (understanding, PR-J); 2:16-19 (strange woman foreshadowed, PR-U); 2:21-22 (righteous/wicked destiny)	Reviewed for new terms; doctrinally reinforces Ch.1 without introducing new collision points.
3	CORE PASSAGE (3:1-12): 1, 3, 6 (Discipline, PR-E), 7; also 2, 4 (adjacent)	3:1-2 (parental teaching, PR-G/PR-H); 3:3 (hesed, PR-K); 3:5-6 (trust/providence anchor); 3:7 (fear of LORD anchor); 3:9-10 (firstfruits/blessing, term A.17 High-risk); 3:11-12 (discipline, PR-E/PR-F, paired with Leej Txiv fatherhood); 3:13-20 (Wisdom’s worth, transitions to personification); 3:33 (blessing on the righteous)	Theological anchor of the whole Language Package; six of seven doctrines converge here. Highest-density review priority.
4	3, 4, 5 (Speech, minor)	4:1-9 (father’s instruction); 4:18-19 (path of righteous vs. wicked, doctrine 3/4); 4:23-24 (guard the heart / put away perverse speech)	Reinforces Doctrines 3-4; introduces minor speech-ethics echo feeding Doctrine 5’s later development.
5	3 (tangential)	5:1-23 (warning against the adulterous woman, PR-U)	Reviewed — no new load-bearing doctrinal content; marital-fidelity material is background ethical material, not one of the seven assigned doctrines; PR-U term already logged.
6	6 (Diligence/Sloth anchor), 5 (Speech)	6:6-11 (sluggard/ant parable, PR-P/PR-Q anchor); 6:16-19 (things the LORD hates, incl. “a lying tongue” and “a false witness who breathes out lies” — Speech doctrine); 6:20-35 (adultery warning, tangential)	First full statement of the Diligence/Sloth doctrine (6:6-11) and an early Speech-doctrine data point (6:16-19).
7	—	7:1-27 (extended seduction narrative)	Reviewed — no new load-bearing content; continues PR-U material already logged; no new doctrine or term.
8	1, 2 (Wisdom Personified, major/Critical)	8:1-21 (Wisdom’s public discourse, incl. 8:13 fear-of-LORD/hatred-of-evil linkage); 8:22-31 (qanah crux — flagged for mandatory human theologian review, see glossary §C); 8:32-36 (blessing on those who find Wisdom)	Doctrine 2’s densest chapter; the Christological-typology crux at 8:22 must not be resolved in generated content.
9	1, 2, 4	9:1-6 (Wisdom’s house/banquet); 9:7-9 (scoffer vs. wise, PR-N); 9:10 (fear-of-LORD/wisdom-beginning restatement); 9:13-18 (Folly Personified, PR-D, structural foil to Ch.8)	Closes the Prologue (chs. 1-9) with the Wisdom/Folly household contrast; completes Doctrine 2’s personification pair.
10	3, 4, 5, 6	10:1 (wise/foolish son); 10:2 (treasures of wickedness vs. righteousness delivers); 10:4-5 (diligent/slack hand); 10:6-7, 10:22 (blessing on the righteous — reinforces High-risk `koob hmoov` boundary); 10:8, 10:14 (wise/fool speech contrast); 10:19-21 (restrained vs. abundant speech)	First major “antithetic couplet” chapter; touches four of seven doctrines in compressed form — sets the pattern for chs. 10-29.
11	3, 6 (minor)	11:1 (honest weights, PR-Z); 11:4-6, 11:18-19 (righteousness delivers from death); 11:24-26 (generosity/withholding, bridges Practical Righteousness and Diligence)	Reinforces Doctrine 3’s retributive-order teaching; no new collision beyond what Part A already documents.
12	3, 4, 5, 6	12:2-3 (righteous/wicked roots); 12:14-19 (fruit of the mouth, lying vs. truthful lips); 12:24, 12:27 (diligent hand rules; slothful roasts not what he took in hunting)	Reviewed — dense antithetic material reinforcing existing doctrine entries; no new terms beyond glossary.
13	1 (Discipline), 5, 6	13:3 (guarding the mouth preserves life); 13:4 (diligent soul made fat); 13:24 (spare the rod hates the son — PR-E, discipline)	Reinforces PR-E discipline motif from 3:11-12 in a new context (child-rearing); reinforces Doctrines 5-6.
14	1, 3, 4	14:1 (wise woman builds her house — echoes Doctrine 2’s house imagery); 14:16 (wise fears and departs from evil vs. fool’s rage); 14:21, 14:31 (mercy to the poor, term A.9 reused); 14:26-27 (fear of LORD as strong confidence/fountain of life); 14:34 (righteousness exalts a nation)	Restates Doctrine 1’s core term (14:26-27) with the added “confidence/refuge” nuance — reinforces the filial-trust framing required against `kev ntshai dab`.
15	1, 5, 7	15:1-4 (soft answer turns away wrath — Speech doctrine, also touches human `npau taws` kept lexically distinct from divine wrath per baseline convention); 15:3, 15:11 (LORD’s eyes/omniscience — Providence doctrine); 15:8 (sacrifice of wicked vs. prayer of upright — Practical Righteousness); 15:33 (fear of LORD is instruction of wisdom)	Triple-doctrine convergence chapter; 15:8’s sacrifice-contrast reinforces the anti-mechanical-ritual teaching needed for Doctrine 3.
16	7 (Providence, Critical anchor)	16:1-3 (plans belong to man, but the LORD’s answer / commit your works to Him); 16:9 (man’s heart plans, LORD directs steps); 16:33 (casting lots — flagged High per PR-W, divination-collision risk)	Densest Providence-doctrine chapter after 3:1-12; 16:33 requires the mandatory historically-bounded-practice teaching note (§ per glossary PR-W).
17	4, 6 (minor)	17:24-25 (fool’s eyes wander; grief to a father); 17:1 (better a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife — touches Doctrine 3/6 indirectly)	Reviewed — reinforces existing Wise/Fool material; no new collision.
18	4, 5 (Speech anchor)	18:2 (fool has no delight in understanding); 18:6-7 (fool’s mouth invites strife); 18:21 (death and life in the power of the tongue — Doctrine 5’s single highest-stakes verse)	18:21 is the doctrine-defining verse for Speech and Self-Control; requires the mandatory anti-magical-speech teaching note.
19	1, 6, 7	19:15, 19:24 (sluggard); 19:18 (discipline of a son, PR-E); 19:21 (many plans in a man’s heart, but the LORD’s purpose stands — Providence); 19:23 (fear of LORD leads to life)	Reinforces Doctrines 1, 6, 7 together; no new collision beyond those already documented.
20	3, 6, 7	20:4 (sluggard does not plow); 20:10, 20:23 (honest weights, PR-Z); 20:24 (a man’s steps are from the LORD — Providence)	Reviewed — reinforces existing doctrine entries; no new terms.
21	3, 6, 7	21:1 (king’s heart in the LORD’s hand — Providence, notable royal-scope example); 21:3 (righteousness/justice preferred to sacrifice — reinforces anti-ritualism for Doctrine 3); 21:5 (diligent plans vs. hasty poverty); 21:21 (pursuit of righteousness finds life)	Reinforces the anti-mechanical-sacrifice teaching (21:3) that must accompany Doctrine 3’s blessing-language throughout.
22	3 (minor)	22:6 (train up a child, PR-E family); 22:15 (rod of discipline); 22:22-23 (do not rob the poor)	Reviewed — child-training and poor-justice material already logged under PR-E/PR-Y; no new collision.
23	6, 1 (minor)	23:4-5 (do not toil to be rich — critical caution against prosperity-formula misreading of Doctrine 6); 23:13-14 (discipline of children, PR-E)	Directly supplies the comprehension-nuance flagged in Part A for Doctrine 6 (diligence commended, greed-driven toil condemned).
24	6, 2 (minor)	24:3-4 (wisdom builds the house — echoes Doctrine 2 imagery); 24:30-34 (sluggard’s field parable, extended)	Reviewed — reinforces existing Doctrine 6 anchor terms (PR-P/PR-Q); no new collision.
25	5 (Speech/Self-Control anchor), 4 (minor)	25:11 (a word fitly spoken); 25:14 (boasting, reused term A.16); 25:28 (a man without self-control is like a city broken down — Doctrine 5’s second anchor term, PR-S)	25:28 is the doctrine-defining verse for the Self-Control half of Doctrine 5.
26	4, 5, 6	26:1-12 (extended fool sayings); 26:13-16 (sluggard, extended metaphor); 26:20-22 (talebearer/gossip, PR-AB, part of the speech-collision family)	Reviewed — reinforces existing entries across three doctrines with no new collision points.
27	6 (minor), 3 (minor)	27:1 (boasting caution, reused term); 27:23-27 (diligent care of flocks/fields)	Reviewed — agrarian diligence imagery reinforces PR-P without introducing new risk.
28	3, 4, 6, 7	28:1, 28:12, 28:28 (righteous/wicked rule contrasts); 28:4, 28:7, 28:9 (Law-keeping, term A.4, full Mosaic/divine sense); 28:19 (diligent tillers); 28:25-26 (trust in the LORD vs. trust in riches/self — Providence doctrine)	Notable for reusing the full-covenantal `Txoj Kevcai (ntawm Vajtswv/Mauxes)` sense (28:4,7,9) rather than the parental-instruction sense (PR-G); must be kept lexically distinct per glossary term A.4/PR-G convention.
29	1, 4, 6 (minor), 7	29:7 (mercy to the poor, reused term); 29:8 (scoffer, PR-N); 29:15, 29:17 (discipline of a child, PR-E); 29:18 (Law-keeping, term A.4); 29:25 (trust in the LORD brings safety — Providence)	Reviewed — reinforces multiple existing doctrine entries; no new collision.
30	1 (minor), 6 (minor)	30:1-9 (Agur’s humility/fear-adjacent sayings); 30:5 (reliability of God’s word, PR-AC); 30:24-28 (small-but-wise creatures, incl. ants — echoes Doctrine 6’s ant imagery from 6:6-11)	Reviewed — no new load-bearing content beyond echoes already logged under PR-AC and the Diligence doctrine’s ant motif.
31	1 (closing inclusio), 3, 6 (anchor)	31:1-9 (oracle of Lemuel — justice for the poor/afflicted, reinforces Doctrine 3); 31:10-31 (the excellent wife, `'eshet chayil`, PR-X — diligence/competence portrait, Doctrine 6’s climactic anchor); 31:30 (fear of the LORD, closing the 1:7/31:30 inclusio for Doctrine 1)	Closes the book by returning to Doctrine 1’s anchor term and delivering Doctrine 6’s fullest positive character-portrait; PR-X requires the mandatory anti-merit/anti-prosperity teaching note noted in the core glossary.

Governing Note

This document extends assets/doctrine_risk_registry.json and analysis/08_core_glossary.md without contradiction: all seven doctrine IDs, names, risk tiers, and review-routing assignments in Part A are identical to the registry. Part B’s chapter log is the mandatory full-book coverage record required by the PRD; any future Phase 2 generation task touching a chapter marked “Reviewed — no new load-bearing content” must still cite that chapter’s entry rather than omitting it, consistent with the inherited convention from the Romans baseline package (12_ai_translation_requirements.md §1, §8).