NOTES for Pro 3:27-35

What the Wise Man tells us today is, in essence, simple and obvious. It is roughly what each of us was taught in childhood by our mother, and roughly what is called the “moral law”: if you can help, then help; do not put off until tomorrow what can be done today; do not dig a pit for someone else; do not envy a scoundrel... Everything is simple. But the passage ends with a phrase which, according to the logic of the text (although this structure of a sermon may not seem obvious to a modern reader), is the conclusion of everything said above: “The wise will inherit glory, but fools disgrace.” This is not a continuation of the list, but its summation. For everything said above is wisdom, while rejection of the moral law is folly.