Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon and Job, and Psalms serve as our primary witnesses to biblical wisdom. It is not as if wisdom is confined to these books, for its influence is pervasive throughout Scripture. But in these books human experience as the arena in which God is present and working is placed front and center. The comprehensiveness of these five witnesses becomes evident when we set Psalms at the center and then crisscross that center with the other four books arranged as two sets of polarities: Song of Solomon and Job, then Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.
