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'Wise Man' in the Bible

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

For what advantage has the wise man more than the fool? What has the poor man, who knows how to walk before the living?

It is better to hear the rebuke of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

Who is as the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

He who keeps a commandment shall know no evil thing. And a wise man's heart discerns the time and decision.

Now there was found in it a poor wise man. And he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man.

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