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The escalating growth of our technological knowledge in the last century has been nothing short of breathtaking—but has it rendered us wiser? Or godlier? We have lost something priceless, and seem to be trying to replace it with more and more information. We need wisdom! Communications technology leaves us no rest to work things out: mostly we just react, and worry, and fail—and react again. We...

The reader has heard the opposing invitations of wisdom (Prov. 1:20–33) and the young thugs (1:11–14). The one who has chosen the path of wisdom is now given more as to what he may expect along its way. The chapter begins with a series of conditional clauses. ‘If’ is found three times, but is implied eight times in verses 1–4. The corresponding ‘then’ is found in verse 5. We soon discover that wisdom is a product of
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