Here are 4 ways to help you apply the proverbs to your problems.
1. Learn how to read this book.
The real nature of most proverbs is not a rule that is used the same way in all circumstances at all times.
Rather, a proverb is often a recommended way of acting that will be wise in some settings and not in others. Or, a general observation of experience that is very often true and useful, but not always true in every situation. The same act may be wise in one setting, but foolish in another. The same fact may hold in one situation and not in another.
The same is true of proverbs that state a fact, not just proverbs that call for an act: “absence makes the heart grow fonder” and “out of sight, out of mind.” Or “birds of a feather flock together” and “opposites attract.”
These are all true proverbs. But they are not always true in every situation.
2. We learn that life is too complex to be lived by proverbs alone. We need wisdom to know how to use the proverbs.
When the author tells us, back to back, “Answer a fool according to his folly,” and, “Don’t answer a fool according to his folly,” he is teaching us that we need discernment about when to do the one and when to do the other.
If a sergeant tells his platoon to walk slowly and carefully, and also tells them to run like crazy, he expects them to know that sometimes they are navigating a minefield, and sometimes they are under fire in the open country. You store away both pieces of advice in your mind. Wisdom knows when to use the one and not the other.
3. We learn that proverbs alone do not make a fool wise.
A perfectly good proverb in the mouth of a fool does not make him wise. It makes him useless at best. Proverbs alone don’t make fools wise.
What does help us become wise? A mixture of (1) storing up proverbs and other forms of revealed wisdom, (2) meditation on them, (3) serious prayer for God’s help, and (4) a divine gift of wisdom.
Proverbs alone don’t make you wise. You must be wise to use proverbs wisely
4. We learn that we should store up reasons why a proverb might be useful sometimes and not other times.
In other words, store up this truth: there are times when it will be pointless to answer a fool, because it will only drag you into his folly. It’s best to just let him make a fool of himself and be discredited rather than ruining your own usefulness.
But also store up this truth: there are times when he is not just making a fool of himself, but also is drawing dozens, or thousands, into his folly so that he feels justified and wise in his foolish ideas. You need to step in and expose him as foolish for the sake of others, and for his sake.
Pastor Andy
Seek Grow Love 
Well, this escalates everything about proverb. It is not always right but also not always wrong. Each proverb had its own time to use and not. When to active, and when to passive.
Just like Yin Yang.
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