Key Verses and Themes in Song of Songs
Bible Commentary / Produced by TOW Project
Verses |
Theme |
Song 1:6 Do not stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has gazed on me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have not kept! |
Work can be used for control and can humiliate, but it also makes a person stronger. |
Song 1:8 If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow the tracks of the flock and pasture your kids by the shepherds’ tents. |
A person of worth will normally be found to be at his work. |
Song 2:12 The time of singing [pruning] has come… |
Work was meant by God to be a time of celebration. |
Song 2:15 Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards... |
For those whose hearts are light, even work can be a game. |
Song 6:2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies. |
The use of agricultural imagery to describe marriage shows that the worlds of work and of family are integrated in a healthy marriage. |
Song 8:7 If one offered for love all the wealth of one’s house, it would be utterly scorned. |
Love, and the labor that one puts into one’s family, provide the joy that wealth and leisure cannot. |
Contributors: Duane Garrett
Adopted by the Theology of Work Project Board October 18, 2010. Revised October 27, 2010.
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