Quotes About Wisdom

in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”

My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.