Proverbs for Life for Women is a gift book compiled by Lila Empson for Zondervan in 2003.
The book looks very much like a gift book. It has a puffy hardback cover, lovely pages, and a ribbon bookmark. The size is a little under 6x7".
There are about 46 readings grouped into several categories: the Righteous Woman, Virtuous Woman, Faithful Woman, Confident Woman, etc.
Each reading contains a verse from the book of Proverbs in the Bible, a story illustrating the proverb, a conclusion, a "Try this" action suggestion, and a few other proverbs or quotes.
This book mostly uses the Good News Translation of the Bible (formerly Good News or Modern Man, now often called Today's English Version). This is not my favorite version, for a number of reasons. It translates the thought of a passage rather than the words. It succeeds in its goal of having an easily readable text, but it sacrifices some accuracy. I think a different Bible translation would have made this book a lot stronger.
Also, I wouldn't endorse all the people the book quotes from.
Just about the time I thought this book seemed a little lightweight in content, I'd read a section that was particularly helpful and meaningful.
So, this book has a lot of good points, more good than bad. But it could have been much better with a little tweaking.
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