exceptions and who remains hasty to avoid anything but the rule will struggle to spell. So it is in life. The Wisdom Literature needs Ecclesiastes then, in order to keep us from entrusting ourselves to trite formulas under the sun. It is not that Proverbs ignores exceptions. It too makes plain that rules aren’t enough and that context matters for how we apply wisdom. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his