'Discern' in the Bible

Moreover, your little ones whom you said would become prey, and your sons, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter Canaan, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it.

Then your maidservant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king be comforting, for my lord the king is as the angel of God to discern good and evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’”

I am this day eighty years old. Can I [be useful to advise you to] discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or drink? Can I still hear the voices of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

So give Your servant an understanding mind and a hearing heart [with which] to judge Your people, so that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge and rule this great people of Yours?”

“The spirit stood still, but I could not discern its appearance;A form was before my eyes;There was silence, and then I heard a voice, saying:

“Is there injustice or malice on my tongue?Can my palate not discern what is destructive?

Who can understand his errors or omissions? Acquit me of hidden (unconscious, unintended) faults.

I am Your servant; give me understanding [the ability to learn and a teachable heart]That I may know Your testimonies.

To know [skillful and godly] wisdom and instruction;To discern and comprehend the words of understanding and insight,

And I set my mind to know [practical] wisdom and to discern [the character of] madness and folly [in which men seem to find satisfaction]; I realized that this too is a futile grasping and chasing after the wind.

Then you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not serve Him.