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A Messianic Commentary on Proverbs: Proverbial Wisdom & Common Sense is unavailable, but you can change that!

Why do people call Dr. Laura and write Dear Abby? They’re looking for effective solutions to everyday problems. Yet, the Bible has an entire book—the Book of Proverbs—devoted to this. Proverbs—Proverbial Wisdom and Common Sense makes the wisdom of Proverbs accessible, understandable and usable. It organizes the many sayings and explains their meanings in a way never done before. It contains: a...

The fear of ADONAI is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. In the introduction to the book, Solomon promises to give readers chokhmah and da’at (wisdom and knowledge). Then, just a few lines later—here in verse 7—he reveals the crucial source of those qualities. A person might look in many directions for the beginning of knowledge. One might look to the royal wisdom of great kings from ages past. Royal wisdom abounds in Mishlei (Proverbs),
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