OPENING UP PROVERBS
By Jim Newheiser
Day One. 190 pages. £8.00
ISBN 978-1-84625-110-8
It’s always beneficial to read Proverbs and so I looked forward to reviewing this exposition. This not a commentary in the usual sense of verse by verse explanation although it claims to be so. The author wisely and helpfully decided to examine the first nine chapters and chapter 31 as expositions and then deal with the rest of the book topically.
The topics chosen are work, finances, words, bringing up children and leadership. Unusually, the topic of ‘the fool’, a major theme of Proverbs, was dealt with in the section on raising children. The author’s justification of this is that ‘foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child’ (22.15a). This was a too limiting treatment of both topics.
