Men of knowledge, and all wise men, hearing me, will say,

Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.

And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.

All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.

Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.

Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon.

And Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to get together all the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, to come to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up.

Make all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law;

And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.

And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.

I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.

For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.

Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.

And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.

Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

For this reason Daniel went to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders for the destruction of the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, Do not put to death the wise men of Babylon: take me in before the king and I will make clear to him the sense of the dream.

For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.

The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.

This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.

And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.

So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made it.

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.

Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.

The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.

Because of this the king was angry and full of wrath, and gave orders for the destruction of all the wise men of Babylon.

Then the captains, the chiefs, the rulers, the wise men, the keepers of public money, the judges, the overseers, and all the rulers of the divisions of the country, came together to see the unveiling of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up; and they took their places before the image which Nebuchadnezzar had put up.

And I gave orders for all the wise men of Babylon to come in before me so that they might make clear to me the sense of my dream.

This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

Then all the king's wise men came in: but they were not able to make out the writing or give the sense of it to the king.

All the chief rulers of the kingdom, the chiefs and the captains, the wise men and the rulers, have made a common decision to put in force a law having the king's authority, and to give a strong order, that whoever makes any request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole.

Till a number are tested and make themselves clean; and the evil-doers will do evil; for not one of the evil-doers will have knowledge; but all will be made clear to those who are wise.

Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.

Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest.

And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made;

Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:

Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work;

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.

Then I sent for Eliezer and Ariel and Shemaiah and Elnathan Jarib and Elnathan and Nathan and Zechariah and Meshullam, all responsible men; and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise men.

And the king said to the wise men, who had knowledge of the times, (for this was the king's way with all who were expert in law and in the giving of decisions:

And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.

So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

But come back, now, all of you, come; and I will not see a wise man among you.

Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.

The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory for ever. So be it.

For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.

As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;

And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.

In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.

For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;

What I am saying is for wise men, do you be the judges of it.

For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?

And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lights.

And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lights are going out.

But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the traders and get oil for yourselves.

Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:

(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.

He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.

When there is no helping suggestion the people will have a fall, but with a number of wise guides they will be safe.

The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning men away from the nets of death.

Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.