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Proverbs—a book full of wisdom, and yet a book demanding all one’s wisdom to understand. Derek Kidner has not only provided a running commentary on the whole of Proverbs, but has also included two helpful study aids: a set of subject guides that bring together teaching scattered throughout the book, and a short concordance that helps locate lost sayings (in territory notoriously hard to search)...

as ‘my tôrâ’, there looms behind it ‘the tôrâ’, majestic and absolute. It is only moral perversity that can reject it: ‘Those who forsake the law praise the wicked’ (28:4). As for a people deprived of revelation, 29:18 holds out little hope for them. ‘Where there is no vision’ (or, RSV, ‘prophecy’) ‘the people run wild; but he that keepeth the law’ (the other main form of Old Testament revelation), ‘happy is he’. To end on this note, however, would be to disguise the fact that the explicitly religious
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