Say unto wisdom, Thou {art} my sister; and call understanding {thy} kinswoman:

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? {understanding: Heb. hearing}

Wherefore {is there} a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing {he hath} no heart {to it}?

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

How much better {is it} to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget {it} not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; {yea}, every good path.

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, {and} which stood before him:

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and {some} of them they shall slay and persecute: