ocr: nspired by God's supernatural gift of wisdom, he composed 1,005 songs and 3,000 proverbs-many of which are collected in this book. This representative chapter captures the pattern of the book of Proverbs: A wise old man, surrounded by eager young admirers, coyly unveils to them the secrets of his life. (A modern parallel: lillions of Americans will buy the latest how-to book by a tamous sports figure or ousiness executive-i maybe it will. heipme achieve that same ind of SUCceSS, they think.) Before revealing his secrets, nowever, the author of Proverbs wants to get one thing straight. The wisd ...