Thematic Bible: True wisdom, general references to


Thematic Bible



And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),

Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD. Give me understanding according to thy word.


But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding?

And I turned myself to behold wisdom and madness and folly. For what [can] the man [do] who comes after the king? [Even] that which has been done long ago.

I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.





Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. For who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding,



Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as far as light excels darkness.

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

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

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding. For the gain of it is better than the gain of silver, and the profit of it than fine gold.



For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.





Therefore every man, whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.


But we speak wisdom among the fully developed, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who come to nothing.


For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame was in all the nations round about.


And in every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

And Solomon answered to her all her questions; there was not anything hid from the king which he did not answer.


Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places.

Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?

She has sent forth her maidens. She cries out upon the highest places of the city:


Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.



Wisdom [is] the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

Wisdom has built her house. She has hewn out her seven pillars.







Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.