Up until now the book has been pretty decisively down on life with folly, foolishness and all the stress and anxiety that comes out of it. This particular chapter presents a shift by raising a question, what do we do now that life is foolishness?

As we move into this section Solomon moves from a discussion that wisdom is better than folly and foolishness to a collection of short proverbs that build on this whole theme.

Welcome as we turn to part 9 of our study. As we go through this, the same themes of wisdom Solomon whirls around, anchoring it back into that common theme that the best we can do in the stance of wisdom and faith that we find joy in the moment with gratitude to the gifts
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