ocr: words About words - ProverDs Sampier eckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise prings healing. (Prov. 12:18) Who is the wisest person you know? Probably you'll come up with an elderly versun, full of life experience, with a wry twist of numor and a colortul way of putting things. Solomon must have peen like that, and he passed down his oDservations about life in elegant, witty nuggets of insight. Yet for all its wisdom, Proverbs may well be the most abused book in the bible. -eople often quote the proverbs as if they were absolute promises trom God or rigid rules for living ...