The book of Proverbs speaks to the human will and to the choices that life sets before us. Someone has said, “Choices are the hinges of destiny” and the truth is that our lives turn on the choices we make. The primary message of Proverbs is that life can never be fully understood nor lived except through a relationship with God. There are only three books in the Hebrew scriptures that can be categorized as philosophic: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.
And by philosophic I mean it in the sense that the Jews would as Hebrew philosophers believe that their “love of wisdom” began with their love and affirmation of God, as Paul so aptly put it in Col. 2:2-3, “the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Being a “philosopher” only makes a person a “lover of wisdom” but being a lover of God makes one wise!