TOPICAL BIBLE
Wisdom
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Ecclesiastes 2:4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.Ecclesiastes 2:5I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.Ecclesiastes 2:6I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.Ecclesiastes 2:7I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance—herd and flock—above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man—a wife and wives.Ecclesiastes 2:9And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.Ecclesiastes 2:10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,Ecclesiastes 2:11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!Ecclesiastes 2:12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what is the man who cometh after the king? that which is already—they have done it!Ecclesiastes 2:13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise!—his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;Ecclesiastes 2:15and I said in my heart, ‘As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?’ And I spake in my heart, that also this is vanity:Ecclesiastes 2:16That there is no remembrance to the wise—with the fool—to the age, for that which is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!Ecclesiastes 2:17And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 2:18And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.Ecclesiastes 2:19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it—his portion! Even this is vanity and a great evil.Ecclesiastes 2:22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?Ecclesiastes 2:23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 2:24There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it is from the hand of God.Ecclesiastes 2:25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?Ecclesiastes 2:26For to a man who is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And an advantage it is to those beholding the sun.Ecclesiastes 7:12For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is, She reviveth her possessors.Ecclesiastes 7:13See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?Ecclesiastes 7:16Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate?Ecclesiastes 7:17Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?Ecclesiastes 7:18It is good that thou dost lay hold on this, and also, from that withdrawest not thy hand, for whoso is fearing God goeth out with them all.Ecclesiastes 7:19The wisdom giveth strength to a wise man, more than wealth the rulers who have been in a city.Ecclesiastes 7:20Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.Ecclesiastes 7:21Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.Ecclesiastes 7:22For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.Ecclesiastes 7:23All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, ‘I am wise,’ and it is far from me.Ecclesiastes 7:24Far off is that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it?Ecclesiastes 7:25I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.Ecclesiastes 8:1Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.Ecclesiastes 8:5Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.Ecclesiastes 8:16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),Ecclesiastes 8:17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.Ecclesiastes 9:13This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.Ecclesiastes 9:14A little city, and few men in it, and a great king hath come unto it, and hath surrounded it, and hath built against it great bulwarks;Ecclesiastes 9:15and there hath been found in it a poor wise man, and he hath delivered the city by his wisdom, and men have not remembered that poor man!Ecclesiastes 9:16And I said, ‘Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.’—Ecclesiastes 9:17The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools.Ecclesiastes 9:18Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!Ecclesiastes 10:2The heart of the wise is at his right hand, And the heart of a fool at his left.Ecclesiastes 10:3And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, ‘He is a fool.’Ecclesiastes 10:10If the iron hath been blunt, And he the face hath not sharpened, Then doth he increase strength, And wisdom is advantageous to make right.Ecclesiastes 10:12Words of the mouth of the wise are gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.Ecclesiastes 12:11Words of the wise are as goads, and as fences planted by the masters of collections, they have been given by one shepherd.Isaiah 2:3And gone have many peoples and said, ‘Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.Isaiah 5:21Woe to the wise in their own eyes, And—before their own faces—intelligent!Isaiah 11:1And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful.Isaiah 11:2Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah.Isaiah 11:3To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth.Isaiah 11:9Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters are covering the sea.Isaiah 28:24The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!Isaiah 28:25Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie in its own border?Isaiah 28:26And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.