sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth” (Eccl. 12:9–10). In raising this question, I have in view specifically the view of wisdom that prevails in the wisdom literature of the Bible. No single definition will suffice as an answer to the question of what wisdom literature is. Instead, I offer angles of vision as gleaned from reliable sources. Wisdom is skill for living. This implies that wisdom focuses on practical daily living and ties into the authors’