B are mostly synthetic and show a much greater concern for the king and future functionaries at the royal court. Collection III is commonly referred to as the “Thirty Sayings of the Wise.” Its own preamble (22:17–21) debatably refers to thirty sayings (22:20). Its preamble and especially its first ten sayings have striking similarities with the thirty sayings of the Egyptian Instruction of Amenemope (ca. 1186–1069 B.C.) as selected examples in the following table show:
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