In my quest for wisdom (for myself and to impart to my children), I frequently feel like true wisdom is out of my grasp. I can take in the precepts, but application is beyond me. I found some unexpected comfort in chapter 8 where wisdom is speaking:
Proverbs 8:22-23
"The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works,
before his deeds of old;
I was appointed from eternity,
from the beginning, before the world began.
This is just a short part of a longer discussion of how widsom existed before creation, before time began - as this vibrant, almost participartory attribute of God. That means that wisdom is not something "of this world". People will say and do wise things, but on the whole true wisdom is not a human thing - making it more like santification, something that can progress in life, but is never fully realized in a fallen world.
In my humble opinion, wisdom is an accumulated gift that is picked up piece by piece as life confronts us with choices.
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