Ancient wisdom for everyday decisions — Solomon's playbook for living well.
"Trust in the LORD with all thine ______; and lean not unto thine own understanding."
Proverbs has 31 chapters — one for every day of the month. It's the original daily reading plan, and yes, our dailies borrow from it liberally.
Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, according to 1 Kings. The book keeps the best of them — plus contributions from Agur and King Lemuel, two of the Bible's most mysterious authors.
The famous 'virtuous woman' poem that closes Proverbs 31 is an acrostic — twenty-two verses, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, A to Z.
Wisdom is personified as a woman calling in the streets in chapter 1 — Proverbs opens not with advice but with an invitation.