'Discretion' in the Bible

Only the Lord give you discretion and understanding, and give you charge over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

Then Huram continued, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, who will build a house for the Lord and a royal palace for himself.

To give prudence to the naive,To the youth knowledge and discretion,

Discretion will guard you,Understanding will watch over you,

My son, let them not vanish from your sight;Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

That you may observe discretionAnd your lips may reserve knowledge.

“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,And I find knowledge and discretion.

As a ring of gold in a swine’s snoutSo is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

A man’s discretion makes him slow to anger,And it is his glory to overlook a transgression.

Then Daniel replied with discretion and discernment to Arioch, the captain of the king’s bodyguard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;