wise

¶ For all this I considered in my heart, euen to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their workes, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either loue, or hatred, by all that is before them.

1611 marginal noteHebr. I gaue, or set to my heart.

¶ I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Now there was found in it a poore wise man, and hee by his wisedome deliuered the citie; yet no man remembred that same poore man.

The words of wise men are heard in quiet, more then the cry of him that ruleth among fooles.

A wise mans heart is at his right hand: but a fooles heart at his left.

The words of a wise mans mouth are gratious: but the lips of a foole will swallow vp himselfe.

1611 marginal noteHeb. grace.

1611 marginal noteProu.10.32. and 12.13.

And moreouer because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, yea he gaue good heed, and sought out, and set in order many prouerbes.

1611 marginal noteOr, the more wise the Preacher was, &c.

1611 marginal note1.King.4.32.

The wordes of the wise are as goads, and as nailes fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are giuen from one shepheard.

Woe vnto them that are wise in their owne eyes, and prudent in their owne sight.

1611 marginal noteHeb. before their face.

1611 marginal noteProu.3.7. rom. 12.16

¶ Surely the princes of Zoan are fooles, the counsell of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: How say ye vnto Pharaoh, I am the sonne of the wise, the sonne of ancient kings?