Book of Proverbs

This book of the Hebrew Bible is a collection of wisdom sayings, traditionally linked with Solomon and other named sages, arranged in several sections rather than as a single story. Opening discourses personify Wisdom as a woman who calls in the streets and warn against the foolish and the adulterous. Later chapters are brief maxims on work, speech, justice, kingship, family, and the fear of the Lord as the beginning of knowledge. The book closes with an acrostic portrait of a capable wife. It is instructional poetry and proverb, meant for teaching, not a history or a prophetic narrative.

Bound in orange cloth cover blocked with title in blue. Dark blue slipcase blocked in orange on front with title.