A Christian’s connection to God is intimately linked with his connection to truth. Because God is the originator and standard of truth, everything that is wisdom will naturally bleed into this connection. You cannot love wisdom and not love truth. You cannot live discipline and not love truth. Therefore, it also stands to reason that true things produce wise things and that use things produce true things. Where one is, there the other is also. Solomon spends a great deal of time on this passage showing obvious truths about behaviors and their connection to wisdom. He outlines the logical status quo by which anyone who thinks they’re wise must act: they must tell the truth. Those who do not result, not only in folly, but show themselves to have become fools. When one lies they are fools. Their effect on others shows them to be fools. Before God, they are fools. Upon insult, they are fools. Over time, they are exposed as fools. This list grows and grows throughout the entirety of Proverbs. Jesus said that what comes out of a man defiles him. This passage certainly foreshadows that truth. We would all do better to say less and fear God than to constantly broadcast our foolishness on social media for likes.