'Wise Man' in the Bible
Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for you are a wise man, and know what you ought to do unto him; but his gray head bring you down to the grave with blood.
Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counselor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
A wise man fears, and departs from evil: but the fool rages, and is confident.
The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will appease it.
A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.
A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and casts down the stronghold in which they trust.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increases strength.
If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether the foolish man rages or laughs, there is no rest.
A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keeps it in till afterwards.
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one fate happens to them all.
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how does the wise man die? as the fool.
And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a bribe destroys the heart.
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.
Whosoever keeps the commandment shall experience no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerns both time and judgment.
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover; though a wise man thinks to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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.
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for why is the land perished and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through?
Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
Thus says the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon a rock:
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good life his works with meekness of wisdom.
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