Proverbs 21:22
A wise man scales the city of the mighty and pulls down the stronghold in which they trust.
BSB
ASV
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, And bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
KJV
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.
"The wise person assaults strong cities and demolishes the fortifications in which the ungodly trusted." Do you think when Solomon said this he wanted to teach us that the wise person seized cities and demolished fortifications built from stones? Or, rather, is he indicating that the city and the walls are the doctrines of the ungodly and the syllogisms of philosophers, with which they augment every impiety that is contrary to the divine law and that is observed among pagans or barbarians?
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty,.... Which makes good what is elsewhere said, that "wisdom is better than strength", Ecc 9:16; and sometimes more is done by prudence and wisdom, by art and cunning, by schemes and stratagems, than by power and force; especially in military affairs, and particularly in besieging and taking fortified cities; when one wise man, by his wisdom, may so order and manage things, as to be able, with a few under his command, to mount the walls of a city and take it, though defended by a mighty garrison in it.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 24:5A wise man is strong, and a man of knowledge enhances his strength.
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Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully
Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight and strength.
But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.
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Ecclesiastes 7:19Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
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For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and…
A wise man is strong, and a man of knowledge enhances his strength.
I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me: