Proverbs

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The Book of Proverbs is a collection of collections of Hebrew poetry that falls
within the broad category denoted by the Hebrew word māšāl, which is (in construct
plural form, mišlê) the first word in the book.

It includes not only the short, pithy statements of popular wisdom that
we typically associate with the word proverb but also what we would call parables and
even some extended instructional discourses.