Get Wisdom!
1 Wisdom = n. sagacity (n. quick, keen judgment; ability to see promptly what should be done in a difficult situation; the quality of quick, sure decision.), prudence, good judgment; great learning.
syn. Prudence. Wisdom directs all matters, present or to come. Prudence, acting by foresight, directs what is to come. Rules of conduct are framed by wisdom. It is the part of prudence to apply these rules to the business of life.
2 Wisdom (OT) = to teach: understanding, intelligence; skill; heart; craftiness, subtlety, prudence; to become wise or intelligent; understanding, wisdom, meaning; substance, wisdom.
Wisdom (OT) = sound: substance, wisdom
Wisdom (NT) = skill
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, and will be secure (at ease), without fear of evil. My son, if you receive My Words, and treasure My Commands within you, so that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding, yes if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of GOD. For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding; He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding; My son, let them not depart from your eyes – keep sound wisdom and discretion; Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the Words of My mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; Love her, and she will keep you. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom, and in all your getting get understanding. My son pay attention to My wisdom; lend (bow) your ear to My understanding, My son, keep your father’s command, and do not forsake the law of your mother. Bind them continually upon your heart; tie them around your neck. My son, keep My Words, and treasure My Commands within you. Keep My Commands and live, and My Law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, ‘You are my sister.’ and call understanding your nearest kin, does not wisdom cry out, and understanding lift up her voice? She takes her stand on the top of the high hill (heights), besides the way, where the paths meet. She cries out by the gates, at the entrance of the doors: “To you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. O you simple ones (lit. naïve), understand prudence, and you fools, be of an understanding heart. Listen, for I will speak of excellent things, and from the opening of my lips will come right things; for my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the Words of my mouth are with righteousness; nothing crooked or perverse is in them. Now therefore, listen to me, my children, for blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and do not disdain it. Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoever finds me finds life, and obtains favor from the LORD; but he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the HOLY One is understanding. For by me your days will be multiplied, and years of life will be added to you. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, you will bear it alone. Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid. How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth. He who gets wisdom (lit. heart) loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will find good. Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge; Have I not written to you excellent things of counsels and knowledge, that I may make you know the certainty of the Words of Truth, that you may answer words of truth to those who send to you (or send you)? Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to words of knowledge. Hear, My son, and be wise; and guide your heart in the way. Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding. My son, be wise, and make My heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me. Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand all.” (Proverbs 1:7,33; 2:1-7; 3:13, 21; 4:5-7; 5:1; 6:20-21; 7:1-4; 8:1-8, 32-36; 9:10-12, 12:1; 16:16; 17:24; 19:8; 22:17, 20-21; 23:12, 19, 23; 27:11; 28:5)
“…incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding, yes if you cry out for discernment…” Proverbs 2:2b-3. Wisdom, understanding and discernment are all inter-linked, anyone of them is good but having all three allows The HOLY SPIRIT to be able to get us through any situation and also use us to bless others. Study 1 Corinthians 10:1-15.
“Say to wisdom, ‘You are my sister.’ and call understanding your nearest kin. Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding lift up her voice?” Proverbs 7:4, 8:1. Wisdom and understanding are living SPIRITS, see the chapter ‘Living Wisdom’. Also study Isaiah 11:1-2; Revelation 5:6
“Listen, for I will speak of excellent things, and from the opening of my lips will come right things; for my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are with righteousness; nothing crooked or perverse is in them.” Proverbs 8:6-8 Wisdom from GOD will always be pure and bring life, wisdom from the flesh, world, and kingdom of darkness is always deceitful and brings destruction and death. “For whoever finds me finds life, and obtains favor from the LORD; but he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death.” Proverbs 8:35-36. Also study 1 Corinthians 3:18-23, 2 Corinthians 1:12 and James 3:13-18.
“Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.” Proverbs 12:1. In our politically correct world it is wrong to call someone stupid, but the Bible is clear that it is stupid to not pursue GOD’s instruction in wisdom and the correction that results in our life. “How long, you simple (naive) ones, will you love simplicity (naiveté)? For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.” Proverbs 1:22 “… ‘How I hated instruction, and my heart despised correction! I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! I was on the verge of total ruin, in the midst of the assembly and congregation.” Proverbs 5:12-14 this is for both those who reject GOD and His gift of salvation through JESUS CHRIST and those who believe in JESUS but aren’t willing to study and learn for them self.
“The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.” Proverbs 16:23; “If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, you will bear it alone.” Proverbs 9:12; “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.” James 3:17. We must seek His wisdom, knowledge and understanding or we become stagnant or worse we can believe a lie.
Be happy find wisdom! Solomon is teaching that we don’t just need knowledge, but how to use that knowledge. Proverbs 10:23b says, “But a man of understanding has wisdom.”
James says in James 1:5, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of GOD, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” The psalmist says in Psalm111:10, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.” Job says about wisdom in Job 28:12-28, “But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? Man does not know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living. The deep says, ‘It is not in me’; and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’ It cannot be purchased for gold, nor can silver be weighed for its price. It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire. Neither gold nor crystal can equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewelry (vessels) of fine gold. No mention shall be made of coral ( Heb. ramoth) or quartz, for the price of wisdom is above rubies. The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold. From where then does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding? It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air (heaven). Destruction (Heb. Abaddon) and death say, ‘We have heard a report about it with our ears.’ GOD understands its way, and He knows its place. For He looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heavens, to establish a weight for the wind, and apportion the waters by measure. When He made a law for the rain, and a path for the thunderbolt, then He saw wisdom and declared it; He prepared it, indeed, He searched it out. And to man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.’” Long before Solomon Job says that true wisdom comes from GOD Who by speaking the Word created everything that exists and established its order and place in His creation.
All of creation knows that True Wisdom exists and has more value than anything in creation. Job 28:28 and John 17:3 are the theme of the Bible, “And to man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is Wisdom, and to depart from evil is Understanding.” “And this is Eternal Life, that they know You, the only True GOD, and JESUS CHRIST whom You have sent.” GOD told Israel, “For I desire mercy (Or faithfulness or loyalty) and not sacrifice, and the Knowledge of GOD more than burnt offerings.” Hosea 6:6 and that still applies today to the whole earth, as He said to Habakkuk, “For the earth will be filled with the Knowledge of the Glory of the LORD.” Habakkuk 2:14.
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