Old Testament · Wisdom and poetry
Proverbs
Short sayings and longer poems about wisdom, speech, work, money and character.
Book 20 of 66 · 31 chapters · 915 verses
Chapters
Selected passages from Proverbs
Passages from this book that have been reviewed as reading clearly on their own.
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counsellors there is victory.
Reading a whole book
Chapter and verse numbers were added centuries after these texts were written, and they occasionally fall in awkward places. If a chapter seems to begin mid-thought, it may well be doing exactly that — reading the end of the previous chapter usually resolves it.