In this selection are Thirty Wise Sayings, a collected of 30 wise sayings. Interestingly enough, the Spanish and English translations number them differently.
Here is a paraphrase of the 30 sayings from the English numbering. Most of these are a handful of stanzas, so are only two lines and some are a dozen lines or so. But here’s my summary:
- Pay attention to what I’ve said
- Don’t exploit the poor
- Don’t hang out with thugs
- Don’t get into debt
- Don’t move the boundary stone
- People with a marketable skill will be valued
- If you eat with a ruler, don’t pick up his fancy habits
- Don’t obsess over obtaining wealth
- Don’t eat with a begrudging host
- Don’t talk to fools
- Don’t move the boundary stone
- Seek wisdom
- Discipline your children
- Wisdom makes you glad
- Don’t envy sinners
- Don’t be a drunk or glutton
- Listen to your parents
- Beware of adulterous women
- Don’t be a drunk
- Don’t envy sinners
- Wisdom is your foundation
- The Wise will prevail
- Fools cannot understand wisdom
- Evil plans will be disturbed
- You are measure by your response to trouble
- Wisdom is a sweet for your soul as honey for your lips
- The righteous will get up in response to trouble, but the evil are destroyed
- Don’t rejoice when your enemies fail
- Don’t fret the plans of evildoers, they will fail
- Fear the LORD and your King; rebels will be destroyed.
It feels like a good summary of Proverbs in pace and content.