Blast!

It just occured to me...! Blast it! I hate it when things that are pretty interesting as well as intricate just occur to one! It takes the wind out of one's sails, causes consternation, and makes the pilot leave the helm just as Deadman's Reef is off the port bow.

So, both Job and Noah appear as fools to their fellow men.
In this symbolic game of narratives about God, the Just are always idiots.
Suppose we repent, and the whole world - except for a few celebrities - turns to righteousness and justice; would the just still seem like idiots?

Actually, they would. They have to be; it is the logic of the narrative of God and Man. It is inherent in our understanding of the relationship of Man to the Holy that Man be corrupt and that the Just Man be a fool.
All this sets the stage for the ironic reversal where the fool is seen to be wise - not wordly wise, but infinitely wise.
Which means that if we say this is "true", we condemn ourselves to an "iffy" proposition, for we have seen that modern day fools have lost the sense of feeling comfortable with God, and they just remain fools.

Now to most of you, this seems like a discussion of how we tell our stories and spin yarns and tell tales. But for me, it is a study in consciousness, and it is a experiment in how we create the potent symbolic realm which has as much and more power over our lives than does the symbol "money".  There are symbols that are like fallen leaves, and there are symbols that are like ancient trees with deep roots into the earth.
I suppose this business about godly fools explains why God was wearing a fedora when I ran into Him a couple years ago.