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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...

of Proverbs the word can describe a popular saying of the common folk (1 Sam. 10:12; 24:13), a byword (Deut. 28:37; 1 Kings 9:7; 2 Chron. 7:20; Ps. 69:11; Jer. 24:9; Ezek. 14:8), a prophet’s oracle (Num. 23:7, 18; 24:3, 15, 20–21, 23), a more lengthy taunt (Isa. 14:4ff), an extended discourse (Job 29–31), a parable (Ezek. 20:49), an allegory (Ezek. 17:2), a lament (Mic. 2:4), and is a close cousin to the riddle (Ps. 49:4; Prov. 1:6). Within Proverbs, we find not only the simple two line proverb (Prov.
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