Chapter 24 : 23 begins a new section and source with the declaration, " these too are from the wise . " The next section at chapter 25 : 1 has a superscription to the effect that the following proverbs were transcribed " by the men of Hezekiah ", indicating at face value that they were collected in the reign of Hezekiah in the late 8th century BCE . Chapters 30 and 31 ( the " words of Agur, " the " words of Lemuel, " and the description of the ideal woman ) are a set of appendices, quite different in style and emphasis from the previous chapters.