The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
Those with wisdom in the heart receive God's commandments and yield obedience to them. That acceptance marks the obedient as wise, for the divine law stands as God's unchanging standard of right. By contrast, the fool who prattles idly and speaks against the commandments will be brought down to ruin. Such contempt for the law is not wisdom but folly, and its end is a fall.
Those with wisdom in the heart receive God's commandments and yield obedience to them. That acceptance marks the obedient as wise, for the divine law stands as God's unchanging standard of right. By contrast, the fool who prattles idly and speaks against the commandments will be brought down to ruin. Such contempt for the law is not wisdom but folly, and its end is a fall.