We are talking through the books in the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible, Proverbs,

Ecclesiastes and Job.

Today, we're going to dive into the book of Proverbs.

Let the wise listen and add to their learning.

Let the discerning get more guidance.

These books for understanding Proverbs and parables and riddles of the wise.

This book claims that there's a powerful mysterious force in the universe called Hokma.

We translate that Hebrew word into wisdom.

Wisdom is described as this universal principle, according to which the whole universe is ordered

and in which it coheres.

Proverbs begins with nine chapters of speeches encouraging us the reader to see Kokma.

And then the rest of the book is the Proverbs themselves.

It's hundreds and hundreds of these sayings that just take every topic in life you could

possibly imagine and then running them through the grid of the law of Hokma that runs the universe.

Learning about Hokma is not some intellectual exercise with an impersonal force.

Yeah, wisdom is an attribute of God, but it's also something that we're going to see

is accessible to humans you can have wisdom too.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did on the Book of Proverbs.

Here we go.

Okay, the Book of Proverbs.

It's one of the three books in the Wisdom literature.

Yeah, what we're going to frame all of these books as is addressing the question, what

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