contrasted, the proverbial form of the contrasting couplet being the principal method of structuring the comparison. The Book of Proverbs is not merely good advice, though surely you won’t find better anywhere. More fundamentally, it is a book of revealed morality. It contains divine wisdom from God for His covenant people. It is a book in which the saint may learn from God how he ought to conduct his life before other men. As the Psalms focus on man in relationship to God, the Proverbs focus on