Proverbial Wisdom & Common Sense: A Messianic Jewish Approach to Today’s Issues from the Proverbs (Biblia.com)

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Proverbial Wisdom and Common Sense makes the wisdom of Proverbs accessible, understandable, and usable. Written in devotional style and divided into chapters suitable for daily reading, it organizes the many sayings and explains their meanings.

My son, heed the discipline of your father, and do not abandon the teaching of your mother; They will be a garland to grace your head, a medal of honor for your neck. The garland mentioned here is levyah, a rare word in the Hebrew Bible. In fact, it is used only here and in Mishlei (Proverbs) 4:9. Hebrew scholar Franz Delitzsch notes that this word is related to a word in Arabic for “twisting” (Commentary on the Old Testament, p. 60). The idea is of a twisted

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