If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage, but if you are a mocker, you alone must bear it.

I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”

It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

giving him authority to imprison his officials and to teach his advisers.

Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them.

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.

When a scorner is punished, the naive becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge.

My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;

Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, so that I may answer anyone who taunts me.

There are four things on earth that are small, but they are exceedingly wise:

The law of the Lord is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the Lord are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced.

that does not respond to the magicians, or to a skilled snake-charmer.

Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.

So do not be excessively righteous or excessively wise; otherwise you might be disappointed.