Ecclesiastes 10:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Wisdom

General references

Proverbs 2:11

Bible References

Wisdom

The struggles of fools weary them,
for they don’t know how to go to the city.

Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

“So now, let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.

Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and God be with you. You be the one to represent the people before God and bring their cases to Him.

So give Your servant an obedient heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

From the Issacharites, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their relatives under their command.

This is what you are to do: a third of you, priests and Levites who are coming on duty on the Sabbath, are to be gatekeepers.

“Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as harmless as doves.

In those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

But after Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, the church arranged for Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this controversy.

The report of your obedience has reached everyone. Therefore I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good, yet innocent about what is evil.

Brothers, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—

Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.

General references

Discretion will watch over you,
and understanding will guard you,