Found 291 Results for: Wise Counsel

• "He who keeps the commandment experiences no evil, and the wise man's heart knows times and judgments; (Ecclesiastes 8, 5)

• I recognized that man is unable to find out all God's work that is done under the sun, even though neither by day nor by night do his eyes find rest in sleep. However much man toils in searching, he does not find it out; and even if the wise man says that he knows, he is unable to find it out. (Ecclesiastes 8, 17)

• All this I have kept in mind and recognized: the just, the wise, and their deeds are in the hand of God. Love from hatred man cannot tell; both appear equally vain, (Ecclesiastes 9, 1)

• Again I saw under the sun that the race is not won by the swift, nor the battle by the valiant, nor a livelihood by the wise, nor riches by the shrewd, nor favor by the experts; for a time of calamity comes to all alike. (Ecclesiastes 9, 11)

• On the other hand I saw this wise deed under the sun, which I thought sublime. (Ecclesiastes 9, 13)

• But in the city lived a man who, though poor, was wise, and he delivered it through his wisdom. Yet no one remembered this poor man. (Ecclesiastes 9, 15)

• "The quiet words of the wise are better heeded than the shout of a ruler of fools"--! (Ecclesiastes 9, 17)

• The wise man's understanding turns him to his right; the fool's understanding turns him to his left. (Ecclesiastes 10, 2)

• Words from the wise man's mouth win favor, but the fool's lips consume him. (Ecclesiastes 10, 12)

• Besides being wise, Qoheleth taught the people knowledge, and weighed, scrutinized and arranged many proverbs. (Ecclesiastes 12, 9)

• The sayings of the wise are like goads; like fixed spikes are the topics given by one collector. (Ecclesiastes 12, 11)

• For they see the death of the wise man and do not understand what the LORD intended for him, or why he made him secure. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 17)