And Proverbs are not wooden premises; they are statements that are true often enough to be worthy of consideration. Using them woodenly can arise from misunderstanding, but a good dollop of self righteousness (because they can be expounded to sound so moral and judgmental) goes a ways towards that kind of misstep.
I had an issue with “Paulus” calling the use of analogy as being “weak” in the engagement of rational argument(rationality in the classical sense not in the 21st century psychobabble sense), when I know that great truths can often only be communicated verbally thru analogy, allegory, or parables. Proverbs uses quite true and descriptive analogy in describing the evil effects of sin on one’s self or sin directed at one’s fellow man. The proverb “The Fool says in his heart ‘there is no God’ “...is the start of a inward directed dialectic that(the first question...why does that make him a fool?) trips a lot of dominoes that ends with a ‘aha moment’...if a man knew the God I knew, who put the worlds in motion, he could no longer deny His existence. Yet the fool “SAYS IN HIS HEART...and therefore has already PREDETIRMINED NOT TO KNOW HIM or at least NOT TO KNOW OF HIM....and that is what makes such a fool in fact, A FOOL! Now to explain all that in the many words I used, is cumbersome...yet the skilled use of Proverbial analogies and parables short circuits the ‘wordy process’ and allows those with open hearts and minds to God to have the Holy Spirit fill in the dialectic pieces in a flash.