EGAD— If it's important to you it's significant to us
Proverbs - God's wisdom
Chapter 1-9: Healthy reverence for the LORD, speeches from a father & lady wisdom
Chapter 10-29: Ancient general rules basically are probabilities & reference words
Chapter 30: Agur acknowledged the needs for God's wisdom as a model reader
Chapter 31: Lemuel learned wisdom from his mom in alphabet poem
This teacher is smart about everything! Proverbs can see things people don't see.
Chapter 1-9: Fear of the Lord, this healthy respect for God, is the starting of wisdom
Chapter 10- 31: Wise people tend to do better and that's the promise and hope
Book of Proverbs is too simplistic? That's why we need to look at the next book
Proverbs - the most famous book of Solomon: to pursue God's wisdom, tree of life
Ecclesiastes - meet Solomon near his end of life: life under the sun!
Song of songs - love songs between men and women: humanity pursuing wisdom
Wisdom pursues us so we can have life! How God designed all of us to rule the world