Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!

and five of them were prudent, and five foolish;

and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps.

and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

and the prudent answered, saying -- Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves.

The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.

The fool -- in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

A prudent man is concealing knowledge, And the heart of fools proclaimeth folly.

Every prudent one dealeth with knowledge, And a fool spreadeth out folly.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, And the folly of fools is deceit.

The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.

The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

And the Lord said, 'Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?

'And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.