Choices: King Solomon’s Proverbs in the Business Word of the 21st Century
The best introduction to this book comes from King
Solomon himself, when he introduces his collection
to the reader in Proverbs 1:1–7:
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning;
and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge; [but] fools despise wisdom and
instruction.