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 ...

You know more of the Bible than you think you do, I often remark to my students. Phrases such as “As a dog returns to its own vomit” or “spare the rod and spoil the child” are well-known in English as ...

Proverbs belongs to the so-called wisdom literature of the Old Testament and cannot be fully understood without some knowledge of this literary genre. In some measure wisdom is found amongst all ...

The Hebrew Bible’s Book of Proverbs, sandwiched between the Psalms and Job, elucidates moral values and proper conduct for a life of wisdom and justice. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, author of The Book of ...

This biblical book of sayings and advice is full of wisdom. The Book of Proverbs is one of the most quoted books of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). Comprising the second book in the Ketuvim (or Writings) ...

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 ...

I’ve always liked reading the book of Proverbs in the Bible. Tucked away in this book are insightful and sometimes surprising sayings. King Solomon, the son of King David, wrote many of these ...