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Building the House and Walking in the Fear of the LORD
A wise woman builds while folly tears down, and upright walking is explicitly tied to fearing the LORD. Speech, work, witness, discernment, and the treatment of sin all become tests of whether wisdom is actually governing the household and the person.
Proverbs pictures the wise woman building her house, while Psalm 127 warns that human builders labor in vain unless the LORD builds the house. The shared image places household wisdom and human effort beneath dependence on God rather than treating wise work as self-sufficient.
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