Found 618 Results for: Divine Wisdom

• yet the Lord, in the plenitude of his wisdom, has marked them off from one another, not giving the same destiny to each. (Ecclesiasticus 33, 11)

• See how I have toiled, not for my own sake merely, but for all such as covet wisdom! (Ecclesiasticus 33, 18)

• Believe rather the law’s promises, that cannot miss their fulfilment, the wisdom that trusty counsellors shall make clear to thee. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 8)

• Sometimes, by this means, I have been in danger of death, and only the divine favour has preserved me from it. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 13)

• no power to win men the Lord has given it, so empty is it of all wisdom. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 24)

• But there is wisdom that befriends the owner of it, earning high meed of praise; (Ecclesiasticus 37, 25)

• if thus thou art wise, wisdom thou shalt impart to thy fellows, and shalt not miss thy own reward; (Ecclesiasticus 37, 26)

• Deny not a physician his due for thy need’s sake; his task is of divine appointment, (Ecclesiasticus 38, 1)

• His task is of divine appointment, and thou hast need of him; let him be ever at thy side. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 12)

• The wisdom of a learned man is the fruit of leisure; he must starve himself of doing if he is to come by it. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 25)

• How shall he drink full draughts of wisdom that must guide the plough, that walks proud as any spearman while he goads on his team, all his life taken up with their labours, all his talk of oxen? (Ecclesiasticus 38, 26)

• His plans and thoughts guided from above, he will have skill in the divine mysteries; (Ecclesiasticus 39, 10)