"Do not answer a dolt according to his folly"......(just following a proverb of the bible)
Any dim minded dolt can see the large part of proverbs is stolen from the Egyptians (and Mesopotamian/Babylonians/Persian/Greeks) , except for the more simple minded ones for dolts like you.
Book of Proverbs , Composition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Proverbs
The book is an anthology made up of six discrete units. The first, chapters 1–9, was probably the last to be composed, in the Persian or Hellenistic periods.
The second, chapters 10–22:16, carries the superscription "the proverbs of Solomon", which may have encouraged its inclusion in the Hebrew canon.
The third unit is headed, "bend your ear and hear the words of the wise": a large part of it is a recasting of a second-millennium Egyptian work, the Instructions of Amenemopet, and may have reached the Hebrew author(s) through an Aramaic translation.
The "wisdom" genre was widespread throughout the ancient Near East, and reading Proverbs alongside the examples recovered from Egypt and Mesopotamia reveals the common ground shared by international wisdom |
