17 "Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?"
The wicked will have their day of judgment; they will laugh and play in this world but they will pay for it in the world to come. It says in Proverbs 31:31 concerning the virteous woman "Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates." the same is true of the wicked only replace the word "praise" with the word "judge". In the succeeding verse we will see why Solomon is saying V:16-18
18 "It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all."The wise will take hold of this but the foolish will not be able to grasp it that he that fears the Lord comes forth from them all. This illustrates what we have discovered in the book of Proverbs (See introduction on Proverbs for specifics) that Gods blessing is upon those who fear the Lord and that hand of blessing brings one to the front. Life for the wicked is tangled and complicated fraught with problems and dilemma's for which there seems to be no solution. Obviously one who "chooses" the fear of the Lord has chosen wisely. The fear of the Lord is a path that one seeks that one puts themselves on but it is also one of the Seven Spirits of the Lord that God can place on an individual or a group of people or even a nation (Isaiah 11:2). This individual, corporate assembly, city, state or nation that chooses the fear of the Lord will eventually emerge from them all.
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