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A clear morning on a bare limestone hillside: a narrow hand-cut trench in the rock, a mattock and a basket of spoil at its lip, and a clay lamp still burning on a stone at its mouth.

The father’s talks

Proverbs 2

What have you searched hardest for? He says to look that hard for one thing.

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Where we are

  1. 1–7The father's talksWhy the book exists, then a father to his sonChapter 2
  2. 8–9Wisdom callsHer house and Folly's
  3. 10–22:16Solomon's sayingsTwo lines at a time
  4. 22:17–24The sayings of the wiseThirty sayings, and a few more
  5. 25–29Hezekiah's collectionMore of Solomon, copied out later
  6. 30AgurNumbered sayings from a weary man
  7. 31LemuelA mother's words, and the noble wife

The Benefits of Wisdom

My son, if you accept my words

and hide my commandments within you,

if you incline your ear to wisdom

and direct your heart to understanding,

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if you truly call out to insight

and lift your voice to understanding,

if you seek it like silver

and search it out like hidden treasure,

then you will discern the fear of the LORD

and discover the knowledge of God.

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:6

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;

He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

to guard the paths of justice

and protect the way of His saints.

Question

Quick question

Verses 4 and 6 sit close together. Look at them both.

Where does wisdom come from?

Bright morning among vineyard terraces: a man sits on the flat roof of a low round fieldstone watch hut, looking out over the path below.

Then you will discern righteousness

and justice and equity—every good path.

For wisdom will enter your heart,

and knowledge will delight your soul.

Discretion will watch over you,

and understanding will guard you,

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to deliver you from the way of evil,

from the man who speaks perversity,

from those who leave the straight paths

to walk in the ways of darkness,

from those who enjoy doing evil

and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

whose paths are crooked

and whose ways are devious.

Reflect

What is it keeping you from?

What is wisdom guarding you from right now? What would you lose without that guard?

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman,

from the stranger with seductive words

who abandons the partner of her youth

and forgets the covenant of her God.

Dusk on a pale dusty path going down a slope into shadow: a single line of sandal prints runs down it, and none come back.

For her house sinks down to death,

and her tracks to the departed spirits.

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

So you will follow in the ways of the good,

and keep to the paths of the righteous.

For the upright will inhabit the land,

and the blameless will remain in it;

A gray day: an old olive tree torn out and lying on its side across a broken terrace, roots in the air, the hole raw beside it.

but the wicked will be cut off from the land,

and the unfaithful will be uprooted.

Pray

To want it most

Ask to want wisdom as much as money. Pray for a marriage or a friendship under pressure today. Ask to stay on the path, and for the Lord to keep you there.

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A verse to carry with you

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:6

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