'Wiser' in the Bible

Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.

Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.

The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge:

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.

Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.