The book was edited by certain individuals during Hezekiah’s reign (715 to 686 b.c.), some 250 years after Solomon. Therefore, we must keep distinct in our minds the date of authorship, on the one hand, and the date of final editing, on the other. The former refers to when the material was first written, whereas the latter looks to the time when the anthology of sayings took on its completed, canonical form. As to the structure of the book, the following is how most break it down: (1) A Father’s