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Proverbs: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Through translation, technical notes, and insightful commentary, Richard Clifford sheds new understanding on Proverbs. By focusing on the rhetoric of Proverbs, Clifford demonstrates how the book fosters a lifelong search for wisdom, and enables readers to see how the instructions and sayings are concerned with contemporary issues.

You shall love Yahweh (cf. Prov. 3:5–9, “trust,” “acknowledge,” “revere,” “honor” Yahweh) your God with all your mind (lit., “heart”; Prov. 3:5a) and with all your soul and with all your strength. Let the words (cf. Prov. 3:1, “teaching,” “commands”) I command you this day be upon your heart (Prov. 3:1b). You shall impress them on your children and speak of them when you sit (Prov. 3:24a) in your house and when you walk on the way (Prov. 3:23a) and when you lie down (Prov. 3:24b) and when you get
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