Rich people, however, imagine that their wealth protects them like high, strong walls around a city.

Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich.

The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there.

The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!"

You think you are wiser than Danel, that no secret can be kept from you.

You made clever business deals and kept on making profits. How proud you are of your wealth!

"No servant can be the slave of two masters; such a slave will hate one and love the other or will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."

When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

You should not fool yourself. If any of you think that you are wise by this world's standards, you should become a fool, in order to be really wise.

For what this world considers to be wisdom is nonsense in God's sight. As the scripture says, "God traps the wise in their cleverness";

Command those who are rich in the things of this life not to be proud, but to place their hope, not in such an uncertain thing as riches, but in God, who generously gives us everything for our enjoyment.

A lazy person will think he is smarter than seven men who can give good reasons for their opinions.

You are doomed! You think you are wise, so very clever.

There is a secret truth, my friends, which I want you to know, for it will keep you from thinking how wise you are. It is that the stubbornness of the people of Israel is not permanent, but will last only until the complete number of Gentiles comes to God.

Have the same concern for everyone. Do not be proud, but accept humble duties. Do not think of yourselves as wise.

The first person to speak in court always seems right until his opponent begins to question him.

It is better to be poor but honest than to be a lying fool.

It is not growing old that makes us wise or helps us to know what is right.

Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.

It is better to listen to the quiet words of someone wise than to the shouts of a ruler at a council of fools.