which are longer than the Solomonic "sayings" but shorter and more diverse than the "instructions."

The first section (chapters 1-9) comprises an initial invitation to young men to take up the course of wisdom, ten "instructions", and five poems on personified Woman Wisdom. Verses 1:1-7 constitute an introduction to the whole of this section. Proverbs 10:1-22:16, with 375 sayings, consists of two parts, the first part (10-14) contrasting the wise man and the fool (or the righteous and the wicked),