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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job: Wisdom

  1. Lesson One
    Proverbs: Sayings of Sages (Proverbs 5–9, 22–30)
    25 Activities
  2. Lesson Two
    Proverbs: Wisdom, Our World and YHWH (Proverbs 10–21, 31)
    29 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  3. Lesson Three
    Ecclesiastes
    23 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  4. Lesson Four
    The Lament of Job (Job 1–3, 32–42)
    30 Activities
  5. Lesson Five
    The Wisdom of Job (Job 4–31)
    20 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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Wisdom invites us into her house where she has prepared a table that should look familiar to those of us who’ve studied the New Testament. This meal, where guests can partake of Wisdom and find life, is available to all. It recalls the “table” Jesus offers, where He presents Himself as the Life and sustenance of believers: 

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant ….
Matthew 26:26-28 (ESV)

The bread and wine that Jesus will offer at the Last Supper, and His invitation to “take” and “drink,” appear to echo this earlier table in Proverbs where Lady Wisdom makes a similar offer:

Come, eat of my bread
and drink of the wine I have mixed.
Proverbs 9:5 (ESV)

Just as Jesus will invite “the least of these” to His table in the New Testament, this banquet is an invitation to “whoever is simple” and “him who lacks sense.” And just as Jesus will do in the New Testament, Wisdom calls for conversion and transformation.

“Leave your simple ways, and live,
and walk in the way of insight.”
Proverbs 9:6 (ESV)