{"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_n_096b41096872", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_07: [There are] seven things [characteristic] in a clod, and seven in a wise man:...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "[There are] seven things [characteristic] in a clod, and seven in a wise man: A wise man does not speak before one who is greater than he in wisdom, And does not break into his fellow’s speech; And is"}, {"id": "card_c_2b82ca6db59c", "title": "Easton: Wise, wisdom references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_80a96c8023bb", "title": "Easton: Wise, wisdom cites Job", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Job 28:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_c790344a2337", "title": "Easton: Wise, wisdom cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 1:5 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_250b46e425dd", "title": "Easton: Wise men", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Dan. 2:12 included three classes, (1) astrologers, (2) Chaldeans, and (3) soothsayers. The word in the original (hakamim) probably means “medicine men. In Chaldea medicine was only a bran"}, {"id": "card_n_fbfced21517a", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_04: We must not trust every word of others or feeling within ourselves, but cauti...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We must not trust every word of others or feeling within ourselves, but cautiously and patiently try the matter, whether it be of God. Unhappily we are so weak that we find it easier to believe and sp"}, {"id": "card_n_eb823cfbdfd7", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_04_01: Ben Zoma said: Who is wise?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ben Zoma said: Who is wise? He who learns from every man, as it is said: “From all who taught me have I gained understanding” (Psalms 119:99). Who is mighty? He who subdues his [evil] inclination, as "}, {"id": "card_n_ea00f01e179c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §310: When Christian saw that the man was \"wise in his own conceit\", he said to Hopeful, whis...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "When Christian saw that the man was \"wise in his own conceit\", he said to Hopeful, whisperingly, \"There is more hope of a fool than of him.\" And said, moreover, \"When he that is a fool walketh by the "}, {"id": "card_n_b1436f2d5b2a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_005: But they knew not the way, Thy Word, by Whom Thou madest these things which t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they knew not the way, Thy Word, by Whom Thou madest these things which they number, and themselves who number, and the sense whereby they perceive what they number, and the understanding, out of "}, {"id": "card_n_7cbd6b555121", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_06_08: Rabbi Shimon ben Menasya said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai: Beauty, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabbi Shimon ben Menasya said in the name of Rabbi Shimon ben Yohai: Beauty, strength, riches, honor, wisdom, [old age], gray hair, and children are becoming to the righteous, and becoming to the worl"}, {"id": "card_n_47395057728c", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_34: Behold, God is mine, and all things are mine!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, God is mine, and all things are mine! What will I more, and what more happy thing can I desire? O delightsome and sweet world! that is, to him that loveth the Word, not the world, neither the "}, {"id": "card_n_0cd03a08d2bf", "title": "1 Clement XIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let us therefore, brethren, be of humble mind, laying aside all haughtiness, and pride, and foolishness, and angry feelings; and let us act according to that which is written (for the Holy Spirit sait"}, {"id": "card_n_7e8b2d8c182a", "title": "1 Clement XXXVIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "one exalt himself above another._ Let our whole body, then, be preserved in Christ Jesus; and let every one be subject to his neighbour, according to the special gift bestowed upon him. Let the strong"}, {"id": "card_n_9a4cc0b70a9f", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_02_05: He used to say: A brute is not sin-fearing, nor is an ignorant person pious; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He used to say: A brute is not sin-fearing, nor is an ignorant person pious; nor can a timid person learn, nor can an impatient person teach; nor will someone who engages too much in business become w"}, {"id": "card_n_4b92f30444d3", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_12: There are four types of disciples: Quick to comprehend, and quick to forget: ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are four types of disciples: Quick to comprehend, and quick to forget: his gain disappears in his loss; Slow to comprehend, and slow to forget: his loss disappears in his gain; Quick to comprehe"}, {"id": "card_n_8b0670067058", "title": "Ignatius to the Ephesians XVIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let my spirit be counted as nothing for the sake of the cross, which is a stumbling-block to those that do not believe, but to us salvation and life eternal. “Where is the wise man? where the disputer"}, {"id": "card_n_e1972a6f765f", "title": "Easton: Job, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A great diversity of opinion exists as to the authorship of this book. From internal evidence, such as the similarity of sentiment and language to those in the Psalms and Proverbs (see Ps. 88 and 89),"}, {"id": "card_n_3931ec85b131", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_02_10: They [each] said three things: Rabbi Eliezer said: Let the honor of your frie...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "They [each] said three things: Rabbi Eliezer said: Let the honor of your friend be as dear to you as your own; And be not easily provoked to anger; And repent one day before your death. And [he also s"}, {"id": "card_n_6b8ba3914b09", "title": "1 Clement III", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "in it from envy and emulation._ Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, “My beloved did eat and drink, and was enlarged and became fat, "}]}