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• Leisure gives the scribe the chance to acquire wisdom; a man with few commitments can grow wise. (Ecclesiasticus 38, 24)

• How can the ploughman become wise, whose sole ambition is to wield the goad, driving his oxen, engrossed in their work, his conversation limited to bullocks, (Ecclesiasticus 38, 25)

• A life spent in eyeing someone else's table cannot be accounted a life at all. Other people's food defiles the gullet; a wise, well-brought-up person will beware of doing this. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 29)

• Others directed the people by their advice, by their understanding of the popular mind, and by the wise words of their teaching; (Ecclesiasticus 44, 4)

• A wise son succeeded him, who lived content, thanks to him. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 12)

• How wise you were despite your youth, like a river, brimming over with intelligence! (Ecclesiasticus 47, 14)

• Blessed is he who devotes his time to these and grows wise by taking them to heart! (Ecclesiasticus 50, 28)

• Woe to those who think themselves wise and believe themselves enlightened. (Isaiah 5, 21)

• very well, I shall have to go on astounding this people with prodigies and wonders: for the wisdom of its wise men is doomed, the understanding of any who understand will vanish. (Isaiah 29, 14)

• Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster and he will not go back on his word; he will rise against the breed of evil-doers and against those who protect wrong-doers. (Isaiah 31, 2)

• How can you say, 'We are wise, since we have Yahweh's Law?' Look how it has been falsified by the lying pen of the scribes! (Jeremiah 8, 8)

• The wise are put to shame, alarmed, caught out because they have rejected Yahweh's word. What price their wisdom now? (Jeremiah 8, 9)