The Wisdom Tradition is a movement that had, in ancient times, adherents throughout the Near East, Asia Minor, Egypt and possibly eastward from Canaan to India. Within Judaism, it finds expression in the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes, and also in something of a transmuted form in those Prophets whose writings are included in TaNaKh. As I may someday explain elsewhere, IMO those gentlemen, the Classical Prophets, belonged to a completely different movement from that of Nathan, Samuel and Elijah.

The Wisdom Tradition has no pertinence or similarity at all to gnosticism. There was no secret wisdom, no existentialist contemplations of cosmology, no mysterious rituals by which one might come into direct apprehension of the All. On the contrary, this wisdom is wholly down-to-earth and practical. It is, in short, the wisdom of prudence.A soft answer turns away wrath.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, and be wise.
This tradition has contributed positively to society to the extent that prudent conduct tends to bring about shalom. Including long life. Wherefore elders came traditionally to be regarded as wise. In a sense, even my own mother provides an example: thanks to many factors including notably her own management of her emotions, over the years, she is as fit and frankly as attractive, at age 83, as some women in my neighborhood only dreamt of being at age 40.

Like many, many other movements, however, the Wisdom Tradition did not recognize the limits of its competence or applicability. Handy analogues come to me first from psychology: Freud's students came virtually to regard id and superego as being organs of the body just as substantially as liver and kidneys. B. F. Skinner's work with pigeons led to preposterous extrapolations about theology and the social order. How many paperback self-help books are on the market today, promising a single-issue quick fix to permanently change one's life for the better?

Prudent conduct cannot guarantee shalom.

The religious movements friendly to the Wisdom Tradition, however, have always wanted to insist it does.

This is revealed God theology.

PSALM 1
1 Happy are those
..........who do not follow the advice of the wicked
..........or take the path that sinners tread
..........or sit in the seat of scoffers
2 but their delight is in the law of the LORD
..........and on his law they meditate day and night..
So far, so good. I think I like it.3 They are like trees planted by streams of water
..........which yield their fruit in its season
..........and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.
Huh?4 The wicked are not so,
..........but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
Wait a minute. This does not describe the real world.6 The LORD watches over the righteous,
..........but the way of the wicked will perish.
If only it were so. But it's not. I'm not going to say HaShem does not watch over anybody; in fact, my belief is the opposite, HaShem watches over all. Nonetheless, who among us hasn't seen righteous folk suffer horribly, and wicked folk thrive?

HaShem simply does not mete out material circumstances to people that way. God's presence or non-presence, favor or disfavor, is not REVEALED in anyone's material lot.

The Classical Prophets took the Wisdom Tradition and turned it around. Whereas the conventional wisdom held that poor folk are poor because they sin, and rich people are rich because God loves them; these men observed that many poor folk aren't nearly sinful enough to account for their wretchedness, and many rich well

Recalling the first post on this thread:If I don't get what I want
then someone did something wrong.
The classical prophets concluded that the sins of the rich cause the poverty of the poor.I hate, I despise your festivals,
..........and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
.......... .......... ..........* * *
But let justice roll down like waters,
..........and righteousness like an everflowing stream.
(Amos 5:21, 24.)
It's still revealed God theology.