2182 verses about Discernment

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see.

They have ears, but they don’t hear. They have noses, but they don’t smell.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY

Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

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

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

They have mouths, but they can’t speak. They have eyes, but they can’t see.

They have ears, but they can’t hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

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

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

Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

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

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.

“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

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

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.