29 occurrences

'Wise Man' in the Bible

"Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood."

"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise man among you.

Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

Do not reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

The king's wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence.

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

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 memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool.

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

Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

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

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

then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

Now a poor wise man was found in it, 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 a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

"Who is the wise man, that may understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?"

Thus says the LORD, "Do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, do not let the rich man glory in his riches;

Thus says the LORD: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, will be compared to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

I say this to move you to shame. Is not there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?