Proverbs

"Proverbs" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Many English proverbs are collected in this book.

Proverbs are full of wisdom.

Proverbs are still very popular in America.

I wonder if there is any meaning to putting proverbs into English.

How many proverbs have we learned so far?

He quoted some famous proverbs from the Bible.

She knows many proverbs.

Proverbs are an ornamentation of speech.

Behind every animal on the Chinese zodiac lies an array of proverbs, sayings and stories.

There is a strong feeling in favour of cowardly and prudential proverbs.

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The Proverbs are an excellent springboard for broad-ranging Bible study. If you study Solomon’s pearls of wisdom, you will find the Spirit of God leading you (by chain references or quiet remembrance) all over the Old and New Testaments for confirming, clarifying examples.

Erman’s remark (1924) that a decent wisdom book was destroyed when it was absorbed into the book of Proverbs coheres well with the scholarly consensus that Proverbs is a clumsy accretion of ill-digested material.

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