{"query": "Easton: Wise, wisdom", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4d2be55cd64d", "title": "Easton: Wise, wisdom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A moral rather than an intellectual quality. To be “foolish” is to be godless (Ps. 14:1; comp. Judg. 19:23; 2 Sam. 13:13). True wisdom is a gift from God to those who ask it (Job 28:12-28; Prov. 3:13-"}, {"id": "card_src_lex_h2449", "title": "H2449 — חָכַם (cha.kham): be wise", "shelf": "lexicon", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "חָכַם (cha.kham), Strong's H2449: be wise. 1) to be wise 1a) (Qal) to be or become wise, act wisely 1b) (Piel) to make wise, teach wisdom, instruct 1c) (Pual) to be made wise 1d) (Hiphil) to make wise"}, {"id": "card_n_c2a61d615c0a", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_03_09: Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa said: anyone whose fear of sin precedes his wisdom, his...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa said: anyone whose fear of sin precedes his wisdom, his wisdom is enduring, but anyone whose wisdom precedes his fear of sin, his wisdom is not enduring. He [also] used to say: a"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_james_3_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on James 3:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On James 3:13 — As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_corinthians_2_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 2:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Corinthians 2:6 — In this part of the chapter the apostle shows them that though he had not come to them with the excellency of human wisdom, with any of the boasted knowledge and literature of t"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_19_20", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:20", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 19:20 — Note, 1. It is well with those that are wise in their latter end, wise for their latter end, for their future state, wise for another world, that are found wise when their latter e"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_ecclesiastes_7_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Ecclesiastes 7:11 — Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit th"}, {"id": "card_src_word_wise", "title": "wise", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "wise: (noun) a way of doing or being · (noun) United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949) — syn: Stephen Samuel Wise · (noun) United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_2_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 2:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 2:1 — Job had asked, long before this, Where shall wisdom be found? Whence cometh wisdom? (Job 28:12, Job 28:20) and he had given this general answer (v. 23), God knoweth the place of it; "}, {"id": "card_src_book_16627", "title": "Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom — Emanuel Swedenborg", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom, by Emanuel Swedenborg. Subjects: God (Christianity) -- Love; God (Christianity) -- Wisdom. Read the full text (public domain): https://"}, {"id": "card_src_word_wisdom_book", "title": "wisdom book", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "wisdom book: (noun) any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom — syn: sapiential book, wisdom literature"}, {"id": "card_src_word_wisdom_literature", "title": "wisdom literature", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "wisdom literature: (noun) any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom — syn: sapiential book, wisdom book"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_8_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 8:12 — Wisdom here is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; it is Christ in the word and Christ in the heart, not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ rev"}, {"id": "card_fk_fk1_27", "title": "Wisdom from Above", "shelf": "fieldkit", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wisdom from Above — anchor: James 3:17 (pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated).  Source: Test wisdom by its fruits, not its sophistication.  Floor: Earthly wisdom sounds smart and tears down. "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_ecclesiastes_9_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 9:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Ecclesiastes 9:13 — Solomon still recommends wisdom to us as necessary to the preserving of our peace and the perfecting of our business, notwithstanding the vanities and crosses which human affair"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_kings_12_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 12:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Kings 12:1 — Solomon had 1000 wives and concubines, yet we read but of one son he had to bear up his name, and he a fool. It is said (Hos 4:10), They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase"}, {"id": "card_n_ed8a06e8e6d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_019: For although we find no time before it, for wisdom was created before all thi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For although we find no time before it, for wisdom was created before all things; not that Wisdom which is altogether equal and coeternal unto Thee, our God, His Father, and by Whom all things were cr"}, {"id": "card_src_book_4349", "title": "Wisdom and Destiny — Maurice Maeterlinck", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wisdom and Destiny, by Maurice Maeterlinck. Subjects: Wisdom; Fate and fatalism. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4349"}, {"id": "card_src_word_wisdom_of_solomon", "title": "wisdom of solomon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "wisdom of solomon: (noun) an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC — syn: Wisdom"}, {"id": "card_src_book_77250", "title": "The wisdom of the Apocrypha — L. (Launcelot), 1872-1945 [Editor] Cranmer-Byng", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wisdom of the Apocrypha, by L. (Launcelot), 1872-1945 [Editor] Cranmer-Byng. Subjects: Wisdom literature. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77250"}]}