Proverbs talks about creation and wisdom.
Trees of life spring up more than once.
There is a lot about sons being a source of sorrow to their mothers, who had originally praised God they had gotten a man with the help of Yahweh.
And there are fools refusing to listen to rebukes or instruction, when a wise person says, “If you do well, will you not be accepted?”
Lots of warnings about the sons of god desiring the daughters of men.
Violence receives a lot of attention.
What kind of counsel a wife gives is discussed.
And what sort of wife ought to be valued.
Diligence is promised to be rewarded with dominion.
And though wisdom is more valuable than the gold of Havilah, it is a way to get that too.
There are springs of life.
And how cities are built is an important issue.
It is easy to read Proverbs as a meditation on Genesis.
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Proverbs is difficult for many reasons, one of which is how far “theology” has drifted from the story of the Bible. I’m not necessarily talking about false theology. Even correct theology as it is commonly taught turns Proverbs into alien territory.
Maybe I can explain what the problem is this way:
If you are a believer in a religion that is best expressed as four spiritual laws or a flow-chart or a chart about the dispensations of history, or a scheme of double predestination, or many other things (some of which may or may not be true–the issue is not veracity but primacy), then it will be a mystery to you why God wrote the book of Proverbs and put it in our Bibles.
But…
If you are a practitioner of a religion centered on a story that begins with how God made men and women to relate to Him and one another as they take dominion over the world, and move downstream from their garden home, and find gold, and start trading and have to raise children and eventually build cities that are supposed to further reflect the glory of God, then you will completely understand why the book of Proverbs had to be included as Scripture.