Picture this. You’re walking down the street and a man screams out of a window at the top of his lungs, “Hey! Yes, I’m talking to you! I know you can be naïve and foolish, and I want to warn you—discern prudence and discern wisdom in your life. Cry out for it! I warn you. Cry out for wisdom!”Strangely enough, this is how you can picture the urgency invoked in these verses. If the writer could literally shout out from the pages of Proverbs into our hearts, he most certainly would want us to see the need for wisdom in our lives. Discarding wisdom could cost your whole life. There is a necessity to cry out to God for wisdom because wisdom is not from people, but from God. We cannot discern wisdom in our own strength. God says to ask for wisdom without doubting and you’ll receive it generously.Are you applying wisdom to your heart and embracing it with all you have? Keep along the path of wisdom, and your life will continue to abound in fruit. Keep along the path of foolishness and your life will be destructive.Contrasting Wisdom and Foolishness:A Wise person: helps others with good advice, is cautious with reason, seeks knowledge, values wisdom above riches, receives life, responds to correction, pursues wisdom, profits from correction, controls anger, is admired as counselors, is rewarded with knowledge, keeps the peace, stays on straight paths, avoids wicked paths, and has great advice.A Foolish person: lacks judgment, enjoys foolishness, avoids the wise, feeds on foolishness, pursues elusive dreams, is proud, trusts in self, unleashes anger, inherits folly, stirs up anger, goes in the wrong way, walks a troublesome path, and will never be chosen as counselor.