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The book of Proverbs is a collection of sayings, poems, and "life's little instructions." Wrestling with the values of things such as creation, livelihood, or moral character, Proverbs exhorts its readers to seek the higher ideals---knowledge, discipline, piety, and order---and offers guidance on how to live in harmony with God, others, and oneself.

their incarnation in human character (see Prov. 1:9). This imagery also echoes Deuteronomic language about remembering the laws and teachings of this code: “Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates” (Deut. 6:8–9). This similarity suggests that the sages of Israel and Judah may have been involved in the writing and redaction of Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic corpus (Weinfeld, Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic
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