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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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Grab your Workbook Journal!

[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

Now you have it—the full set of perspectives in Proverbs:

  1. Advice from elders to young men
  2. Wisdom: understanding plus character
  3. Integrated: holistic and integrated worldview
  4. Grounded in nature and culture
  5. Begins with the fear of YHWH

Note well the final comment from the lecture: 

Not other gods, not the fear of the gods, not just reverence in front of this massive universe, but a belief that Yahweh is the one behind all this—that’s the only real access that you have to the pure fountain of Wisdom. Otherwise, it’ll be polluted; it’ll be corrupt.

  1. Briefly comment on aborted attempts to gain and live out wisdom independent of the Lord.