Proverbs walks you to the top of a hill with a green valley below and a clear path ahead. Then an old man with a pipe steps up beside you, begins to speak, and the sky clouds over while the valley sinks into thick fog. That is how Ecclesiastes opens (Ecclesiastes 1), where the Hebrew word hevel means not only pointless but also vapour and mist, like an infant trying to fill up on the steam rising off a hot sweet potato. Only the student scribbling notes in the lecture’s margins lets light through that fog. Listen if you catch yourself chasing something that turns out to be vapour once you reach it.
In Search of Meaning
Try Being Wise
How can we be wise and not lose our way in our complex world? Where can we find the meaning of life? How should we make life decisions? In search of answers to these questions, we decided to turn to the biblical wisdom literature-namely, the Books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job. These books offer us three different perspectives on wisdom that are highly relevant today. Thanks to them, anyone can become wiser.
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