Discretion

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

• Character
• Women

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; read more Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. show less

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

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• Power

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

• Faith
• Heart
• Strengthened

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion. Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

• Wisdom

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

• Parents

Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.

• Power

Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

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• Captive
• Servant

But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.