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The vision for this series is to provide for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of texts of the Bible in the context of the Bible’s Story, and to provide discussion and instantiations of how the Bible’s Story is lived today. The purpose of the Story of God Bible Commentary Series is to explain and illuminate Scripture as God’s Story, with...

A proverb is wise; it belongs to many people; it is ingenious in form and idea; and it was first invented by an individual and applied by him to a particular situation.14 All proverbs are wisdom, but not all wisdom is proverbial. The book of Proverbs is a unique genre in this light, as narratives can be historical, fictional, or didactic, for example, but the short sayings of proverbs are native to wisdom literature. That said, wisdom is also found in other
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