The wise in heart will receive commands,
But a prating fool will fall.
He who walks with integrity walks securely,
But he who perverts his ways will become known.
Proverbs 10:8-9 (NKJV).
Your ways will find you out, sooner or later. That is the inevitability of a world which is constantly veering towards chaos, or at least an order which is not hospitable to our own comfort, let alone survival.
Knowing that, from prior passages, the wise are already self-aware, being able to receive commands is just an extension of receiving wisdom and guidance. For the same reason that you are humbling yourself to learn from God, you can do the same for those in positions of authority over you. This is especially important when dealing with complicated circumstances where your own perceptions are limited and you need to rely on someone who is looking at things from a bigger perspective.
In contrast, we have the fools who run the spectrum on whether their folly is discovered in the short or long term. The "prating fool" is obvious, and we've all run into them in our lives, the type of person who can't be told anything but has to be the one making all the pertinent points in a conversation, dominating it. Even if all they're contributing is the sound of their voice, they must simply keep talking.
This first group falls because their decisions are only as good as their ability to act on their own perceptions, and given that we're all finite beings, we're prone to misunderstandings. There are generally three types of knowledge: what you know you know, what you know you don't know, and what you don't know you don't know.
For the prating fool, the first type of information they have in spades, at least according to them. The second type only contains information which is irrelevant or useless, and the third type simply doesn't exist. Amusingly, one does not need to think hard about circumstances in their own life where the second type of information became an issue, let alone the third, so again the failures are found in the disparity between claims and reality.
When highly competent, even the prating fool will see success, but only for a time. The immediacy of consequences is not the most important aspect compared to the inevitability of them. For the same reason that, having jumped out of an airplane without a parachute, it doesn't really matter how long you're falling before the final consequences hit, that you may still be halfway to the ground does not mean you won't ever hit the ground.
This also leads to the second group of fools which, while perhaps not as overtly talkative, is still refusing to make choices which are wise. The contrast here is between integrity and perversion, which may imply that even fools who listen to wisdom, but do not then apply it as they indicated they would, are not spared the inevitability of their choices being brought to light.
If someone gives you good advice and you choose to ignore it, the disparity will become obvious as consequences play out, because our behaviors reflect our choices, and pursuing different means will get you different ends that, even if superficially similar, are not quite the same at all.
Take used car sales. The goal is to make a profit selling used cars. One could do this by ensuring that the vehicles are adequately serviced and that you have good customer relations, or by simply pushing the vehicles out the door to the unsuspecting and focusing on volume instead of individual deals.
Both are trying to achieve the same "ends" of making a profit selling used cars, but the means are different, and one will lead to a destroyed reputation, albeit with cash in your pocket faster, than if you'd dealt with integrity and honesty. The ends don't necessarily distinguish, and so the means is how the wise and the fool are distinguished.
Because the fools and the wise behave differently, even if hidden for a time, or blatantly obvious at the outset, the differences will always come to light, and no amount of explanation after-the-fact will change the circumstances from what they are as a result of the past choices.
Listen to wisdom, the exhortations of those whose perspective encompasses information which you may not be aware of, and then move forward with integrity.
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