'Understanding' in the Bible

These proverbs are for gaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;

Let the wise listen and increase their learning; let the person of understanding receive guidance

in understanding proverbs, clever sayings, words of the wise, and their riddles.

making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding

if, indeed, you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you,

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not depend on your own understanding.

How joyful is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding,

By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, and by understanding he set the heavens in place.

Listen, children, to your father's instruction, and pay attention in order to gain understanding.

Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget or turn aside from the words of my mouth!

Wisdom is of utmost importance, therefore get wisdom, and with all your effort work to acquire understanding.

Say to wisdom, "You're my sister!" and call understanding your close relative,

Isn't wisdom calling out; isn't understanding raising her voice?

Understand prudence, you naive people; and gain an understanding heart, you foolish ones.

Counsel belongs to me, along with sound judgment. I am understanding. Power belongs to me.

Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."

The fear of the LORD is where wisdom begins, and knowing holiness demonstrates understanding.

Good understanding produces grace, but the lifestyle of the treacherous never changes.

Being slow to get angry compares to great understanding as being quick-tempered compares to stupidity.

Stupidity is the delight of the senseless, but an understanding man walks uprightly.

Whoever ignores instruction hates himself, but anyone who heeds reproof gains understanding.

Anyone who has understanding is a fountain of life, but foolishness brings punishment to fools.

A rebuke is more effective with a man of understanding than a hundred lashes to a fool.

A person with understanding has wisdom as his objective, but a fool looks only to earthly goals.

Whoever controls what he says is knowledgeable; anyone who has a calm spirit is a man of understanding.

Whoever obtains wisdom loves himself, and whoever treasures understanding will prosper.

If you scourge a scoffer, the simple person may learn to be discreet; rebuke a discerning man and he will gain understanding.

Whoever wanders from the path of understanding will end up where the dead are gathered.

Purchase truth, but don't sell it; store up wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

By wisdom a house is built; it is made secure through understanding.

When a land transgresses, it gains a succession of leaders, but with an understanding and knowledgeable man, its stability endures.

A Commander-in-Chief who is a cruel oppressor lacks understanding, but whoever hates unjust gain will live longer.

Three things cause wonder for me; four are beyond my understanding: