You a freshly painted, shiny-signed storehouse?
To scorn wisdom is to cut short your days. How many of us really want to cut our days short? Most of us actually hope we will find some way to add another hour to the day, day to the week, or years to our lives! We just don’t have the time to get everything done we hoped to accomplish. We can become so distracted by the things which promise us gain, influence, status, or value in life that we miss the true things that will. The promise of God is that he will not let the godly starve - it doesn't say if the godly work themselves to the bone, tire themselves out in the efforts they exert, etc. It simply says God won't starve the honest soul. He even will satisfy the cravings of our soul - the fulfillment of those cravings may be with something quite different than we'd pursue on our own. Left to our own devices, we'd likely pursue the stuff which falls "just short" of what God intends for us. They are "good", but they aren't "great...