Thematic Bible: True wisdom, general references to


Thematic Bible



I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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

Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.


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

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

I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.





Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great?"

Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;



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

It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

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

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.



For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, 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 chasing after wind.





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


We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming 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 all around.


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.

Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hidden from the king which he didn't tell her.


Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice?

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


Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

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



Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

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







Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.