Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
It is the wisdom of the clever to understand where they go, but the folly of fools misleads.
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
If the iron is blunt and one does not whet the edge, then more strength must be exerted, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.
Wisdom gives strength to the wise more than ten rulers who are in a city.
So I said, “Wisdom is better than might; yet the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded.”
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one bungler destroys much good.
Then once more you shall see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.
but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light,