The Book of Proverbs

The book is a canonical text with a unified character of its own. Its material is not ordered in the haphazard manner but there is a logic and an overarching order. The proverbs themselves seem to speak to and come from various contexts. There are conditions for the truth of a proverb that must be understood. Many hands make light to work and too many cooks spore the broth seem to have opposing meanings but in the right context they are both true. In properly used they can be useless or worse, something that the book of proverbs itself highlights.