'Understanding' in the Bible

To know wisdom and instruction,To discern the sayings of understanding,

A wise man will hear and increase in learning,And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,

Make your ear attentive to wisdom,Incline your heart to understanding;

For if you cry for discernment,Lift your voice for understanding;

For the Lord gives wisdom;From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Discretion will guard you,Understanding will watch over you,

Trust in the Lord with all your heartAnd do not lean on your own understanding.

How blessed is the man who finds wisdomAnd the man who gains understanding.

The Lord by wisdom founded the earth,By understanding He established the heavens.

Hear, O sons, the instruction of a father,And give attention that you may gain understanding,

Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding!Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

“The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire wisdom;And with all your acquiring, get understanding.

My son, give attention to my wisdom,Incline your ear to my understanding;

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”And call understanding your intimate friend;

Does not wisdom call,And understanding lift up her voice?

“Counsel is mine and sound wisdom;I am understanding, power is mine.

“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here!”To him who lacks understanding she says,

“Forsake your folly and live,And proceed in the way of understanding.”

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,”And to him who lacks understanding she says,

On the lips of the discerning, wisdom is found,But a rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding.

The lips of the righteous feed many,But fools die for lack of understanding.

Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool,And so is wisdom to a man of understanding.

He who despises his neighbor lacks sense,But a man of understanding keeps silent.

Good understanding produces favor,But the way of the treacherous is hard.

A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none,But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding,But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.

Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding,But in the hearts of fools it is made known.

Folly is joy to him who lacks sense,But a man of understanding walks straight.

He who neglects discipline despises himself,But he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold!And to get understanding is to be chosen above silver.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it,But the discipline of fools is folly.

A rebuke goes deeper into one who has understandingThan a hundred blows into a fool.

Wisdom is in the presence of the one who has understanding,But the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

He who restrains his words has knowledge,And he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.

A fool does not delight in understanding,But only in revealing his own mind.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul;He who keeps understanding will find good.

Strike a scoffer and the naive may become shrewd,But reprove one who has understanding and he will gain knowledge.

A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water,But a man of understanding draws it out.

A man who wanders from the way of understandingWill rest in the assembly of the dead.

There is no wisdom and no understandingAnd no counsel against the Lord.

Buy truth, and do not sell it,Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

By wisdom a house is built,And by understanding it is established;

By the transgression of a land many are its princes,But by a man of understanding and knowledge, so it endures.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes,But the poor who has understanding sees through him.

A leader who is a great oppressor lacks understanding,But he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

Surely I am more stupid than any man,And I do not have the understanding of a man.