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Wisdom
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Ecclesiastes 2:4I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:Ecclesiastes 2:5I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:Ecclesiastes 2:6I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:Ecclesiastes 2:7I got [me] servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] musical instruments, and that of all sorts.Ecclesiastes 2:9So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.Ecclesiastes 2:10And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.Ecclesiastes 2:11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.Ecclesiastes 2:13Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.Ecclesiastes 2:15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:16For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.Ecclesiastes 2:17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 2:18Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.Ecclesiastes 2:22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?Ecclesiastes 2:23For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:24[There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.Ecclesiastes 2:25For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], more than I?Ecclesiastes 2:26For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.Ecclesiastes 7:12For wisdom [is] a defence, [and] money [is] a defence: but the excellency of knowledge [is, that] wisdom giveth life to them that have it.Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make [that] straight, which he hath made crooked?Ecclesiastes 7:16Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?Ecclesiastes 7:17Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?Ecclesiastes 7:18[It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.Ecclesiastes 7:19Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty [men] which are in the city.Ecclesiastes 7:20For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.Ecclesiastes 7:21Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:Ecclesiastes 7:22For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.Ecclesiastes 7:23All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it [was] far from me.Ecclesiastes 7:24That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?Ecclesiastes 7:25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness:Ecclesiastes 8:1Who [is] as the wise [man]? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also [there is that] neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)Ecclesiastes 8:17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yea further; though a wise [man] think to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].Ecclesiastes 9:13This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it [seemed] great unto me:Ecclesiastes 9:14[There was] a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:Ecclesiastes 9:15Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.Ecclesiastes 9:16Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard.Ecclesiastes 9:17The words of wise [men are] heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.Ecclesiastes 9:18Wisdom [is] better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.Ecclesiastes 10:2A wise man’s heart [is] at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.Ecclesiastes 10:3Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth [him], and he saith to every one [that] he [is] a fool.Ecclesiastes 10:10If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom [is] profitable to direct.Ecclesiastes 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise [are] as goads, and as nails fastened [by] the masters of assemblies, [which] are given from one shepherd.Isaiah 2:3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.Isaiah 5:21Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!Isaiah 11:1And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:Isaiah 11:2And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;Isaiah 11:3And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:Isaiah 11:9They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.Isaiah 28:24Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?Isaiah 28:25When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?Isaiah 28:26For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him.