Proverbs is part of wisdom literature, along with Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Job and Song of Songs. There are two major genres of proverbs. One is sayings, short wisdom sentences with contrasts, such as “the fool” and “the wise”, lazy and industrious, good and evil, right and wrong, helpful and selfish. One example of that is found in Proverbs 19:1, “Better the poor whose walk is blameless that a fool whose lips are perverse.” The second major ...

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