We're awash in knowledge in 2023, but do you think our general level of understanding is greater? Do you think we're wiser? I'm not so sure, so when I was challenged to re-read through one of the ...

In Rob Stites updated edition of Organized Proverbs: Contrasts in Wisdom from the Holy Bible, readers are invited to apply the wisdom from the book of Proverbs, organized by topic, to their own ...

Few verses are as well-known as Proverbs 3:5-6. Many of us – myself included – have made them our life verses. We meditate on the truths they remind us of and seek to order our lives around their ...

This biblical book of sayings and advice is full of wisdom. Jewish tradition teaches that King Solomon authored the Book of Proverbs; in Hebrew, the book is known as Mishlei Shlomo, or “The Proverbs ...

In this age of the transistor, there is a sense in which God may be said to have given us “transistorized wisdom.” The Book of Proverbs contains hundreds of verses that present truth in the smallest ...

Proverbs serves as a formal collection of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible. In tracing the historical composition of this book, we can see the beautiful evolution of Hebrew wisdom. The book begins with what ...

‘A person acts what he is when he may do what he will,’ wrote a monk in Kent at some point in the first half of the 11th century. This gnomic utterance was not of his own making — the monk in question ...