"... The translator of Proverbs, unlike many of his Septuagintal colleagues, had a marked interest in exegeting his source text ... corresponding to an emphasis on righteousness and the righteous is a commensurate highlighting of unrighteousness and the unrighteous. Proverbs 1:18 amplifies this negative side of the equation, and verse 19 pointedly refers to lawless deeds and impiety. In verse 22 the innocent are linked to righteousness, but the fools are described as impious. In verse 28 the subject is made explicit by the addition of “evil people”. Madame wisdom is described in 3:15, where (contra the Masoretic text) it is also stated that nothing evil will withstand her. Proverbs 6:3 introduces “the hands of evil” without explicit warrant in the Hebrew. 8:13 shows that the translator’s ideological interests are capable of producing literary felicity, whether by inadvertence or design. By rendering (“perverted speech”) as (“perverse ways of evil people”), he creates the parallel phrases (13b) and (13c), which includes an end rhyme ..."