Please read “E1. Meaning to the Meaningless” before reading any of my other articles on Ecclesiastes.
Ecclesiastes 4:7-12
Relationships are important. You do not have to have godly wisdom to recognize that. Earthly wisdom can recognize the practical reasons relationships matter. Only a fool would not recognize that two are usually better than one. Two working together will produce more than two working as singles. When two are together, they can help each other if one of them falls or makes a mistake. Two working together provide a better defense than one working along. The more that are working together the stronger the defense.

Earthly wisdom can also recognize that relationships are not always righteous. People shatter their relationships because of unrighteous emotions and motives, such as greed, envy, jealousy, and selfishness. It is easy to recognize the results of betrayal and selfishness in the relationships of the people around us. We see abused children, we see parents that love their work more than they love their children, and we see divorce as a common occurrence. The list of ways that relationships are shattered is almost endless. Earthly wisdom can recognize the practical need for relationships, and it can recognized the many ways relationships are devastated, but it cannot recognize how spiritual righteousness is the solution to broken relationships.

Godly-wisdom acknowledges that we were created first to have a right relationship with God. That right relationship with God becomes a foundation upon which we can build right relationships with others. When original sin shattered our relationship with God, it damaged our ability to live in right relationship with anyone. If we are going to repair relationships in our marriages, families, workplaces, and communities, we must first repair our relationship with God. Earthly wisdom cannot discover a way to do that, but it does not have to. God has revealed the way to reconciliation in Romans chapter 3. Christ Jesus is the way, and anyone who believes in him, by grace through faith is reconciled with God. Christ died so that all our relationships might be righteous.