Pro 1:20-22

Wisdom cries out in the streets, raises her voice in the squares. She presents her call at the crossroads, pronounces her message at the city gates:

How long will you simple ones love your simplicity? How long will mockers delight in their mocking and fools hate knowledge?

Ec 3:1-9

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to cast away; a time to rend and a time to sew; a time to keep silence and a time to speak; a time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace. In the end, what profit does one have from their labors?

Jas 1:2-4

Patience in trials.

Brothers, consider yourselves fortunate when you have to endure all kinds of trials. This testing of faith develops the capacity to endure, and the capacity to endure must become perfect, if we want to be perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

Fine print: … The important thing is that we take advantage of the time God gives us to grow and mature as people. Those who have not suffered know little. And those who suffer, often, don’t realize that the best of their person they owe to having had to overcome a thousand difficulties…

Ec 11:9-10

Young man, experience happiness while you are young, and make good decisions early. Choose your path as you see fit, without forgetting that God will ask you to account for everything. Don’t let bitterness settle in you, nor sickness in your body: youth and black hair are treacherous!