A blog post by Tim Keller on the Gospel Coalition web site from March 16, 2010, speaks on some of the relevant topics from Proverbs that we have been reading lately:

In my regular, daily Bible reading over the past year I read through Proverbs 3, a passage I’ve studied and preached through many times. But during this reading, I realized that in verses 3 through 12 we have all the themes of the rest of the book, and therefore a kind of mini-guide to faithful living. There are five things that comprise a wise, godly life. They function both as means to becoming wise and godly as well as signs that you are growing into such a life:

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/proverbs-a-mini-guide-to-life