ContradictionsReading order 188Bible context 3 min read
Is wisdom a good thing?
Wisdom is repeatedly recommended as valuable, yet other passages portray God refusing regard for the wise or destroying their wisdom.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Wisdom is both divinely encouraged and targeted for destruction, but the scope and kind of wisdom remain insufficiently matched.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Wisdom is prized and people are told to seek it
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:2
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Proverbs 2
The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs 3:35
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Proverbs 3