Ecclesiastes 7:25   (Read all of Ecclesiastes 7)

So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

Ecclesiastes 8:1   (Read all of Ecclesiastes 8)

Who is like the wise? Who knows the explanation of things? A person's wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.

Ecclesiastes 8:16   (Read all of Ecclesiastes 8)

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth-people getting no sleep day or night-

Ecclesiastes 9:10   (Read all of Ecclesiastes 9)

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 9:13   (Read all of Ecclesiastes 9)

I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me:

Ecclesiastes 9:15   (Read all of Ecclesiastes 9)

Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:16   (Read all of Ecclesiastes 9)

So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.

Ecclesiastes 9:18   (Read all of Ecclesiastes 9)

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Ecclesiastes 10:1   (Read all of Ecclesiastes 10)

As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

Isaiah 10:13   (Read all of Isaiah 10)

For he says: " 'By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their kings.

Isaiah 11:2   (Read all of Isaiah 11)

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him- the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord-

Isaiah 28:29   (Read all of Isaiah 28)

All this also comes from the Lord Almighty, whose plan is wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent.

Isaiah 29:14   (Read all of Isaiah 29)

Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

Isaiah 33:6   (Read all of Isaiah 33)

He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure.

Isaiah 47:10   (Read all of Isaiah 47)

You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me.'

Jeremiah 8:9   (Read all of Jeremiah 8)

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what kind of wisdom do they have?

Jeremiah 9:23   (Read all of Jeremiah 9)

This is what the Lord says: "Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,

Jeremiah 10:12   (Read all of Jeremiah 10)

But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

Jeremiah 49:7   (Read all of Jeremiah 49)

Concerning Edom: This is what the Lord Almighty says: "Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

Jeremiah 51:15   (Read all of Jeremiah 51)

"He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

Ezekiel 28:4   (Read all of Ezekiel 28)

By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

Ezekiel 28:7   (Read all of Ezekiel 28)

I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations; they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom and pierce your shining splendor.

Ezekiel 28:12   (Read all of Ezekiel 28)

"Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: " 'You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 28:17   (Read all of Ezekiel 28)

Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.