Money helps us to achieve happiness, but wisdom helps us to preserve life. In the Bible, there are many cases that confirm this teaching, in the book of Genesis Joseph guesses and interprets the dreams of the Pharaoh and as a consequence the Pharaoh appoints Joseph vizier or administrator of the kingdom, with Joseph's knowledge the Egyptian people are saved from the famine during the seven years of hardship (Genesis 41). Instead, Ahab, King of Israel, receives from Micaiah, a minor prophet, the warning not to go to battle because he would die, Ahab ignores the warning and finally pays the error with his life (1 Kings 22). The fools rejects the instruction and the advice, and the wise, the truly intelligent people, take advantage of it: "The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice" Proverbs 12:15.
The word of God, the wisdom from above, is to help us make the right decisions in life, to be precise and exact; to have success in the struggle of life, this is how the book of Proverbs explains it: "Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life," Proverbs 4:13. Perhaps this is one of the best advice that a wise man can give to a person who wants to enter the paths of spirituality and wisdom.
Many people who lack the wisdom to make decisions fail because they make easy decisions or decisions that seem logical immediately, but in due time those decisions ruin us. We can say that being wise also means seeing problems in advance and not waiting for them to fall on us to do something.
We could say that ego and hate kill everything, even the most basic logical decisions, common sense is not nourished by human passions or passing whims. He who lives with wisdom reaches old, but with the fool you never know, health is far from sinners: "Reflecting on these things, and considering in my heart that immortality lies in kindship with wisdom" Wisdom 8:17.