Listen and speak carefully

Proverbs 10:31 “From the mouth of the righteous comes the fruit of wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be silenced.” No one questions that fruit is sweet like honey.  Fruit is an enjoyable and healthy part of everyone’s diet.  One can live without eating fruit, but there is no logical reason to do that.  God calls wisdom fruit.  Wisdom is to be enjoyed as a healthy ingredient of life.  Why would a person possibly want to live without the joy and delicious sweetness of wisdom?  We want to be God’s children who both listen carefully to gain wisdom and carefully study and expound only wise thought.