Job 32:8

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,

Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

But 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.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare. He understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.