About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?
See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.
Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;
Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.
And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam (the sense of the name is, Sent). So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see.
Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.
But they did not take in the sense of any of these words, and what he said was not clear to them, and their minds were not able to see it.
And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.
So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.
For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.
And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.
And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.
But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.
In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.
The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.
It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.
He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.
Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.
He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.
He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.
Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.
He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.
The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.
A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.
A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?
A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.
Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.
He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.
Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.
He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.
A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.
A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.
House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
When blows overtake the man of pride, the simple will get sense; say sharp words to the wise, and knowledge will be made clear to him.
He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.
The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.
Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
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