'Wise' in the Bible
{The wise man can see where he is walking}, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate.
Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?
And who knows [whether] he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will exercise control of all [the fruit of] my toil with which I toiled wisely under the sun. This also [is] vanity!
A poor but wise youth [is] better than an old but foolish king who no longer knows {how to receive advice}.
So do the wise [really] have an advantage over fools? {Can the poor [really] gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others}?
The heart of the wise [is] in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools [is] in the house of mirth.
Better to listen to [the] rebuke of [the] wise than for a man to listen to [the] song of fools.
Surely oppression makes a fool of the wise, and a bribe corrupts the heart.
Do not be excessively righteous, and do not act excessively wise, lest you destroy yourself.
Wisdom gives more strength to the wise than ten rulers who are in the city.
All this I have tested with wisdom. I said, "I will be wise!" but {it was beyond my grasp}.
Whoever obeys [his] command will not suffer disaster. The wise mind knows the [proper] time and the right [procedure].
Then I saw all the work of God--man [is] not able to discover the work that is done under the sun. Although man may toil in seeking, he cannot find it. Even if a wise man claims [that he] knows it, he cannot find it.
So all this I laid to my heart, and I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, [are] in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will [come] to them, whether [it will be] love or hatred.
I looked again and saw under the sun that the race [does] not [belong] to the swift, the battle [does] not [belong] to the mighty, food [does] not [belong] to the wise, wealth [does] not [belong] to the intelligent, and success [does] not [belong] to the skillful, for time and chance befalls all of them.
Now, a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom.
The words of the wise are heard in peace [more] than the shouting of a ruler [is heard] among the fools.
The heart of the wise [inclines] to his right, but the heart of the fool [inclines] to his left.
The wise man [wins] favor by the words of his mouth, but the fool is devoured by his own lips.
The words of the wise [are] like cattle goads; the collections of the sages [are] like pricks inflicted by one shepherd.
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