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Intro to the Wisdom Literature

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/intro-wisdom-literature/

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God & Work

What this book knows

Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes together form a built-in conversation about what wisdom, suffering, and honest doubt actually cost.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

faith-and-doubteducation-and-formationmortality

faith-and-doubt

If I tried to live wisely, what should I expect? What will God do for me if I really try and do the right thing?
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You have one book that says 'do this and it's going to be great,' and another that says 'this guy did it and it didn't work out at all' — both in the same Bible.
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Built into our Scriptures is an opportunity to wrestle and question Scripture — especially around suffering and disappointment.
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education-and-formation

The wisdom books contain human words. The first nine chapters of Proverbs are words from a father to a son: 'listen my child to your parents' instruction.'
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They have a universal quality — exploring issues and questions of anybody anywhere, but from within the worldview of the covenant people.
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mortality

He can trust God in spite of all that — a deep, sophisticated faith, not simplistic, born precisely from the hardship he's been through.
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