This verse is a reminder to not spend your energy and your time on things that don't matter.
However - wisdom is the sum of the experiences we have had plus what we learned from them. And much of what we learn in life is learned from mistakes. We don't usually attribute wisdom to to a young person. Rather, we think of the elderly and look to them for that wisdom that comes from a lifetime of experience and learning and from the perspective of age.
I also have wondered about phrases like the "mysteries of God". It hints of some secret society and only the insiders get to know the "mysteries".
I like to look up words in an app that's called Etymonline. It looks at the etymology of a word - it's origins. When I looked up the word "mystery", it says mystery or "misterie" was used early in the theological sense to just mean a religious truth via divine revelation.
That makes sense, doesn't it? And it is consonant with the idea of gaining wisdom. If life is really designed as an education that is preparing us to be more like our Heavenly Parents, then you would expect that the lessons we learn along the way will be "truths" that will help us to grow wiser and to be more like Them.
Truth is not a mystery as in either incomprehensible or mysterious. Truth comes when we become seekers of it and we value those things we learn because they bring such peace to our lives. We feel whole or complete and that is what this verse describes as "rich".
Once again, definitions mean everything.
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for
ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Good judgment comes from experience,
and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers
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