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Counsels of the Wise King; or, Proverbs of Solomon Applied to Daily Life, Vol. 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

A devotional based on the Proverbs, Counsels of the Wise King provides passages, interpretation, illustrations, and applications for daily meditation and study. Intended for use in private devotion, each day’s reading encourages readers to look further into the proverbs for insight and revelation and to consider how the words can and should affect one’s life. Volume 1 contains devotions for...

“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.”—16:32 (14:17, 29; 15:18; 25:15). —“Slow to anger” is opposed to quick-tempered or irascible. He that ruleth his spirit is one who is master, not only of his temper, but of all his passions. The first deserves more praise than a hero in war. The second effects a nobler conquest than the general who takes possession of a city. —Job, by his patience under
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