Wisdom is supreme – so acquire wisdom, and whatever you acquire, acquire understanding!

To learn wisdom and moral instruction, and to discern wise counsel.

by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,

I will guide you in the way of wisdom and I will lead you in upright paths.

My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;

I have not learned wisdom, nor do I have knowledge of the Holy One.

Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding.

By wisdom the Lord laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding.

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding a close relative,

“I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.

The beginning of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and acknowledging the Holy One is understanding.

Wisdom is found in the words of the discerning person, but the one who lacks wisdom will be disciplined.

Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.

The speech of the righteous bears the fruit of wisdom, but the one who speaks perversion will be destroyed.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.