'Shrewd' in the Bible
Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"
Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, a son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,
with the pureYou prove Yourself pure,but with the crookedYou prove Yourself shrewd.
“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,So that their hands cannot attain success.
with the pureYou prove Yourself pure,but with the crookedYou prove Yourself shrewd.
They make shrewd plans against Your people,And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced;develop common sense, you who are foolish.
A shrewd person conceals knowledge,but a foolish heart publicizes stupidity.
Every shrewd person acts with knowledge, but a fool displays his folly.
The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.
A naive person believes everything, but the shrewd person discerns his steps.
The naive inherit folly, but the shrewd are crowned with knowledge.
Strike a scoffer and the naive may become shrewd,But reprove one who has understanding and he will gain knowledge.
A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.
A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.
Woe (judgment is coming) to those who are wise in their own eyesAnd clever and shrewd in their own sight!
“For My people are foolish,They know Me not;They are stupid childrenAnd have no understanding.They are shrewd to do evil,But to do good they do not know.”
and also against Hamath, which borders it,as well as Tyre and Sidon,though they are very shrewd.
“Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as harmless as doves.
And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.
It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would expose their infants and they would not survive.
We, for Christ's sake, are labeled as "foolish"; you, as Christians, are men of shrewd intelligence. We are mere weaklings: you are strong. You are in high repute: we are outcasts.
Here is scope for ingenuity. Let people of shrewd intelligence calculate the number of the Wild Beast; for it indicates a certain man, and his number is 666.