Wisdom poetry — not stories but sayings, hard-won and sharp. Chapters 1-9 are extended poems with Wisdom personified, calling out in the streets and sitting at creation beside God, filled with delight. Then 10-29 flip into hundreds of short couplets with real snap: lazy hands make poverty, diligent hands bring wealth; a gentle answer turns away wrath. Agur’s riddles in chapter 30 (the leech’s two daughters: Give, give) keep things from getting too settled. Ends with King Lemuel’s mother’s advice and then the poem in praise of a worthy woman — capable, entrepreneurial, and feared by no one.