There is a noticeable change here. The antithetic style of previous sayings starts to give way to synonymous and synthetic or progressive parallelism. More important, there are indications of a deliberate arrangement. The Lord is the subject of verses 1–7, 9, 11, 20, 33, and the king is the topic in verses 10, 12–15. Moreover, the Lord and the king seem to be meshed together (cf. 24:21): verse 11 interrupts 10–15. In addition, the decision (mišpāṭ; NIV “justice”) of the king and of the Lord are spoken of in verses 10, 33. The “abomination” (NIV “detest”) of wickedness is ascribed to the king in verse 12 and to the Lord in 15:9. The rest of the sayings do not betray such close connections, but this is enough to indicate that the collection is not haphazard. The entire chapter is further uni…