WISDOM VS FOOLISHNESS

We read from Proverbs 8 that wisdom cries so obviously and openly at the public places wanting to speak to all including the simple and fools.  There is no wrong speech in Wisdom.  It is right, truthful, excellent and plain to the understanding.  It is not difficult.  It seems right to those that find knowledge.  They know that wickedness equals abomination.  Wisdom has nothing forward or perverse.

The foolish woman also cries openly at the at the public places.  The fool of Proverbs goes to her.  She is the personification of the type of thinking that is without God.  As wisdom calls to everyone from the gates, so does this foolish woman.  Two women personifying two opposed ways of thinking:  one thinking in the context of a God-directed world and the other thinking in the context of a world without God:  Godly thinking and godless thinking.

There are two groups of people that can be unwise:  the simple and the fools.  The simple are those that, at this present time, do not yet have understanding or knowledge; but it is possible to make them have it.  The fools are those that, for some reason, want to refuse the truth.  Since they begin by refusing truth they can not be made understanding or wise.

It might be said that there is nothing that is inherently right or wrong; all things must be judged by the conditions and attitudes in which they are set.  Things like sex, the taking of a human life and love can be right in some circumstances and wrong in others.  It is important for us, then, to set what we find along life’s way into good conditions and attitudes.  In these circumstances we must listen to the proper woman.  We must listen to Wisdom and not Foolishness.