'Proverbs' in the Bible

and I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate, so that he shall be for a sign and for proverbs, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall speak in a proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter!