Themes in Proverbs. Proverbs is unlike most of the rest of the bible. It's not a story like Exodus or Matthew. It's not a letter like Ephesians or Romans. It's not prophecy like Isaiah, or poetry like Psalms.
Proverbs is a collection of short wise sayings.
Usually we read it in small doses, like a desk calendar, because it's hard to make sense of large slabs of it at once. It seems to be just a collection of unconnected sayings that jump all over the place. But when we look closer at the book of Proverbs, we find that it's not just thrown together at random. It's several collections of sayings from different authors, arranged carefully by the final editor. And within each collection, you can detect definite themes.