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'Wise Man' in the Bible

And now hold him not guiltless; for thou art a wise man, and thou shalt know what thou oughtest to do to him; but bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.

And Jonathan, David's uncle, was counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons;

Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,

But as for you all, pray come on again; and I shall not find one wise man among you.

Can a man be profitable to God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.

Men of understanding will say to me, and a wise man who heareth me:

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

The fury of a king is as messengers of death; but a wise man will pacify it.

A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

If a wise man contendeth with a fool, whether he rage or laugh, he hath no rest.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad, and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart knoweth time and manner.

then I saw that all is the work of God, and that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however man may labour to seek it out, yet doth he not find it; and even, if a wise man think to know it, he shall not be able to find it out.

and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool swallow up himself.

Who is a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished, burnt up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?