Job 28:8

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride.”

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.