Children are a heritage from the Lord…they do best when they are the provenance of an excellent wife together with a husband…lays down his life for the ones he loves. Musk’s strong instinct to save civilization is good, but a world full of lost children, looking for their father, carrying in themselves the grief and alienation of their mother who could not tempt his love, is not actually a “civilization.”

“An excellent wife who can find?” asks the King Lemuel in Proverbs, kicking off one of the more stressful passages for female readers of the Bible, at least in the modern era. Is the question rhetorical? If King Lemuel is just a pseudonym for Solomon, he obviously gave it a try before concluding that the task was impossible.

It had not occurred to me, ever, to think of Elon Musk through the lens of King Solomon, chiefly because King Solomon was in the line of the Savior, Jesus, and wrote large portions of Scripture (in spite of having 700 wives and 300 concubines). Elon Musk, on the other hand, is, if not lacking in common sense, at least suffers under a deficit of wisdom when it comes to women and the rearing of children. But the title of The Wall Street Journal’s deep dive into Musk’s “personal” affairs brought that ancient King to mind. Despite all the money he was willing to spend, Ashley St. Clair, whose baby with Musk is named Romulus, succeeded at bringing his “harem drama” into the national conversation. The frustration of the women who have born his children is now open to public scrutiny, as well as his failed efforts to persuade intelligent women, like cryptocurrency influencer Tiffany Fong, to have “his child” even though the “two had never met in person.”

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