| − | Based on authorship, most of the book would have come from the 10th century B.C. Proverbs 25:1 makes reference to copying proverbs in the time of king [[Hezekiah]], so at least part of the book, probably the later portion, was copied or appended at a later time (between 715 to 686 B.C.) | + | Based on authorship, most of the book would have come from the 10th century B.C. Proverbs 25:1 makes reference to copying proverbs in the time of king [[Hezekiah]], so at least part of the book, probably the later portion, was copied or appended at a later time (between 715 and 686 B.C.) |