Proverbs

Definitions

A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.

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Examples

“The Proverbs are an excellent springboard for broad-ranging Bible study⟳. If you study⟳ Solomon’s pearls of wisdom, you will find⟳ the Spirit of God leading you (by chain references or quiet remembrance) all over the Old and New Testaments for confirming, clarifying examples.”

“Erman’s remark⟳ (1924) that a decent wisdom book was destroyed when it was absorbed into the book of Proverbs coheres well with the scholarly consensus that Proverbs is a clumsy accretion of ill-digested material.”

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