Wisdom Defined and Introduced in Person.
V. 5. A wise man will hear, realizing the value of such instruction and therefore yielding a willing ear, and will increase learning, adding to the stock already at his disposal, not haughtily insisting that he knows it all; and a man of understanding, one who has some insight into the demands of the proper Christian conduct, shall attain unto wise counsels, gladly accepting and adopting all the measures which prudent knowledge suggests; v. 6. to understand a proverb and the interpretation, that is, enigma, figurative speech, readily to see and apply the lessons contained in the maxims of this book; the words of the wise and their dark sayings, the lessons which they clothe in such figures and parabolic utterances that they require careful study.
No true wisdom is easily acquired, least of all that pertaining to a God-fearing conduct in life.