and how to do it in the right way at the right time. To the ancient Jew, wisdom was much more than simply good advice or successful planning. I like Dr. Roy Zuck’s definition: “Wisdom means being skillful and successful in one’s relationships and responsibilities … observing and following the Creator’s principles of order in the moral universe.”2 In that definition you find most of the important elements of biblical wisdom, the kind of wisdom we can learn from the Book of Proverbs. Biblical wisdom