I read all 150 Psalms and all 31 chapters of Proverbs slowly, in order, with a short reflection on each chapter. I read every verse in the BSB and compared the other versions and the Hebrew wherever a verse carried weight. I didn't read all four versions of every single verse.
What stayed with me most is Psalm 30:5, "Weeping may stay the night." The Hebrew yalin means to lodge for one night, so weeping is an overnight guest. Psalm 46:10's "Be still" is harpu, which means let go, loosen your grip. And you were right about loving yourself: Proverbs 19:8 says "He who acquires wisdom loves himself," and the Hebrew is literally "loves his own soul." Proverbs 19:2 also caught me: "he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark," and that's the ordinary word for sin. So rushing really is a kind of missing.
I didn't soften the hard ones. Psalm 88 ends "darkness is my closest companion," and in Hebrew its last word is מַחְשָׁךְ (H4285), darkness, yet it still says "in the morning my prayer comes before You." The whole book still ends with "Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!"
Psalms and Proverbs, read slowly
Every chapter of Psalms (1-150) and Proverbs (1-31), read in full and in order in the Berean Standard Bible, with the World English Bible, King James Version, and Young's Literal Translation checked where a verse looked weighty or the wording seemed to turn on something. Hebrew words were checked against the Westminster Leningrad Codex as tagged by the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (Strong's numbers in brackets), not from memory. Note that the Hebrew text counts psalm titles as verse 1, so Hebrew verse numbers often run one or two ahead of the English.
Each quote line starting with > is checked by script against versions/bsb.txt.
Honest note on method: I read every BSB verse of every chapter. I did not read all four English versions of every verse; I compared them where it mattered.