There are three books in the Hebrew Bible that we're going to explore in detail, collectively

they're known as the Wisdom literature, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job.

All of these books are wrestling with a particular set of questions.

How should I live in the world?

What's the good life?

If I try to live wisely, what should I expect?

What will God do for me if I really try and do the right thing?

We'll talk about how we got these Wisdom books in our holy scriptures.

So in the Wisdom books, the wise council of God-fearing people and all of the insight accumulated

throughout the generations becomes God's word to His people.

And we'll discuss why there are three different books with three very different perspectives

on why they're suffering in the world and how we should fundamentally think about this

world that we live in.

Together, they give a sophisticated account of human experience.

But if you read only one of them in isolation from each other, you're being too narrow.

And you're not hearing the whole of what the scriptures say about life here under the sun.

So thanks for joining us for this conversation.

Let's go.

Wisdom literature.

Yeah.

Let's start there.

Yeah, there's a group of books in the Hebrew Bible that have been traditionally called

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