The title is intended, I assume, merely to be catchy. The subtitle, however, gives an accurate description of the contents of the book: “Timeless Wisdom for Your Words, Work, Wealth, and Relationships.” The book is divided into six major sections of two chapters each. The topics covered are one’s speech, work, wealth, friends, marriage, and children.

In the first chapter Selvaggio places the reader in a Christological context by detailing four connections that Proverbs has to Christ: Jesus lived wisdom, Jesus is wisdom, Jesus is the way of wisdom, and Jesus supplies wisdom. The rest of the book contains sound advice culled primarily, but not exclusively, from the book of Proverbs with numerous verses cited and expounded. When you consider the topics the author chooses to develop, you realize that they really are the major issues that Proverbs deals with repeatedly. He is not riding hobby horses. He has stuck to the main themes of Proverbs. Considering these topics also brings you to the realization that these are the main issues in life. Where else do we struggle if not in the areas of our speech, work, wealth, friends, marriage and children?! Hence, like the book of Proverbs itself, this is an immensely practical and challenging book. ( )