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A Life that Is Good: The Message of Proverbs in a World Wanting Wisdom is unavailable, but you can change that!

Somewhere out there is the “good life,” and we’re all scrambling to get it. Glenn Pemberton maintains in this book that we find the so-called good life not in good things but in living well—and the biblical book of Proverbs teaches us how to live that life. Though based on solid biblical scholarship, A Life That Is Good is not a textbook, commentary, or comprehensive study. It is instead a...

The first level means any special skill or expertise. For example, Jeremiah calls for professional mourners to come weep at the funeral for Judah, because the nation is as good as dead. Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled (hokmah) women to come; let them quickly raise a dirge over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids flow with water. (Jer. 9:17–18) In the same way, Ezekiel composes a dirge for the coastal city-state of Tyre, describing
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