Ecclesiastes 8:1

Wisdom Is Valuable

¹ Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. ² I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God.

All Things

Wise Man

Deuteronomy 28:50

a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;

Exodus 34:29-30

And it cometh to pass, when Moses is coming down from mount Sinai (and the two tables of the testimony are in the hand of Moses in his coming down from the mount), that Moses hath not known that the skin of his face hath shone in His speaking with him,

Proverbs 4:8-9

Exalt her, and she doth lift thee up, She honoureth thee, when thou dost embrace her.

Acts 6:15

and gazing at him, all those sitting in the sanhedrim saw his face as it were the face of a messenger.

Genesis 40:8

And they say unto him, 'A dream we have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it;' and Joseph saith unto them, 'Are not interpretations with God? recount, I pray you, to me.'

Genesis 41:15-16

And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, 'A dream I have dreamed, and there is no interpreter of it, and I -- I have heard concerning thee, saying, Thou understandest a dream to interpret it,'

Genesis 41:38-39

and Pharaoh saith unto his servants, 'Do we find like this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?'

Job 33:23

If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter -- one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:

Proverbs 1:6

For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

Proverbs 17:24

The face of the intelligent is to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.

Proverbs 24:5

Mighty is the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power,

Ecclesiastes 2:13-14

And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

Daniel 2:28-30

but there is a God in the heavens, a revealer of secrets, and He hath made known to king Nebuchadnezzar that which is to be in the latter end of the days. 'Thy dream and the visions of thy head on thy bed are these:

Daniel 2:47

The king hath answered Daniel and said, 'Of a truth it is that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since thou hast been able to reveal this secret.'

Daniel 4:18-19

This dream I have seen, I king Nebuchadnezzar; and thou, O Belteshazzar, the interpretation tell, because that all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to cause me to know the interpretation, and thou art able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.

Matthew 17:2

and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments did become white as the light,

Acts 4:13

And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been --

Acts 4:29

'And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,

1 Corinthians 2:13-16

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

Ephesians 6:19

and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,

2 Timothy 4:17

and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

2 Peter 1:20

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,