
This collection of sententious sayings is divine wisdom applied to the earthly conditions of the people of God. That the Proverbs were Solomon's (Pro 1:1) implies no more than that he gathered into orderly arrangement sayings already current amongst the people, the wisdom of the Spirit, perhaps through many centuries (Ecclesiastes 12:9). Chapters 25 - 29 were current in Hezekiah's time (Pro 25:1). Chapters 30 and 31 are by Agur and Lemuel.
The book is in six parts:
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