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Proverbs: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Through translation, technical notes, and insightful commentary, Richard Clifford sheds new understanding on Proverbs. By focusing on the rhetoric of Proverbs, Clifford demonstrates how the book fosters a lifelong search for wisdom, and enables readers to see how the instructions and sayings are concerned with contemporary issues.

1.1  The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: 2  for learning wisdom and instruction, for understanding learned sayings; 3  for acquiring discipline, for success, righteousness, justice, and equity; 4  for imparting prudence to the inexperienced, knowledge and discernment to the young— 5  a wise person, hearing them, will gain more wisdom, and a prudent person will grow in skill— 6  for understanding a proverb and a riddle, the sayings of the sages
Proverbs 1–8:36