Wisdom vs foolishness: The hope of the godless is like chaff carried on the wind, and like sea spray swept before a storm. Wisdom 5:14

In the sapiential literature of the Bible, wisdom and folly are constantly in opposition and contrast, and this is because there are two paths, righteousness and sin, and two retributions, blessedness and misfortune. Someone might wonder why this is so, or why God allows evil and foolishness, but the truth is that there is freedom of choice, and just as one can choose in an edifying way, one can also choose in a destructive way. Man's freedom cannot be overridden by the wisdom of God, and so the sapiential literature teaches Bible readers: "God in the beginning created human beings and made them subject to their own free choice" Ben Sira 15:14.
Man's freedom then brings with it something more: the need for instruction and education, because the truth is that ignorance increases evil and destructiveness in decision-making. And this is true because when many people commit evil deeds, they ask themselves what they gain by being good, and this reasoning is flawed because it is very superficial. Ethics doesn't only study the opposition between good and evil, but also addresses how to minimize error, and this is the real problem, because, according to the law of sowing and reaping, errors are progressive and their long-term consequences are impossible to predict. Truly intelligent people at some point don't question whether to be good or bad, but rather how to avoid mistakes that destroy their own goals, and in this truth, there is great wisdom, because you can't be good to everyone. Wisdom, understood as the education of people, then becomes necessary for both sensible and foolish people.
And the sapiential literature teaches that wisdom has a great advantage in itself, because it provides people with clear goals and ideas for action. On the other hand, those who choose the opposite, that is, a life full of sins, live following whatever luck brings, that is, they live following the winds of fortune, and that is what the Bible teaches: "The hope of the godless is like chaff carried on the wind, and like sea spray swept before a storm" Wisdom 5:14.
The Bible, with its science, invites readers of the sacred scriptures to constantly meditate on this opposition between wisdom and foolishness, to have a long-term life plan, and to achieve happiness and well-being, through the minimization of error.

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