The Arkansas Traveler

Proverbs 1:1-6 (NKJV)
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son
of David, king of Israel:
2 To know wisdom and instruction,
To perceive the words of understanding,
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom,
Justice, judgment, and equity;
4 To give prudence to the simple,
To the young man knowledge and discretion ---
5 A wise man will hear and increase learning,
and a man of understanding will
attain wise counsel,
6 To understand a proverb and an enigma,
The words of the wise and their riddles.
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These verses could be called the preamble of Proverbs.
They give the several purposes of proverbs.
To know wisdom, to give instruction,
to give prudence and wise counsel,
to give understanding of proverbs, etc.
=== Indeed the book we call "PROVERBS"
gives much wisdom and counsel for daily life!