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Blessed Is the One Who Finds Wisdom
The one who finds wisdom is called blessed because wisdom is more valuable than silver, gold, or jewels. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and the passage then grounds human wisdom in God’s own ordering of creation: the LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.
Proverbs blesses the one who finds wisdom; James tells the tested believer to ask God for wisdom.
Proverbs blesses the person who finds wisdom and describes wisdom’s ways as pleasant and peaceful; James contrasts earthly wisdom with wisdom from above marked by purity, peace, gentleness, mercy, and righteous fruit. The later apostolic teaching develops the same wisdom ethic.
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