Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
⛓ Read Proverbs 29 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Whoever loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth' compactly anticipates both the prodigal's wasteful living and the elder son's accusation of harlots (v.30). The proverb pairs squandering and harlotry with a father, exactly Luke's configuration. Coherence strong.
Medium confidenceThe elder son's charge that the younger 'devoured your living with prostitutes' restates Proverbs' 'companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth,' tying the two parts of the parable together with one wisdom maxim. Recurrence with 15:13 makes the proverb a coherent through-line. Verbal overlap of squandering plus harlotry.
Medium confidence