1Ki 3:9, Job 28:20, 28, Psa 51:6, Pro 2:4-6, 3:19, Ecc 7:23-25, 1Cor 1:19-20 | ESV | STEP | Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people , that I may discern between good and evil , for who is able to govern this your great people ?

1 Kings 3:9

9 ^aGive your servant therefore an understanding mind ^bto govern your people, that I may ^cdiscern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”

Job 28:20

20 “From where, then, does wisdom come?
And where is the place of understanding?

Job 28:28

28 And he said to man,
‘Behold, ^dthe fear of the Lord, that is wisdom,
and to ^eturn away from evil is understanding.’”

Psalms 51:6

6 Behold, you delight in truth in ^fthe inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

Proverbs 2:4-6

4 if you seek it like ^gsilver
and search for it as for ^hhidden treasures,
5 then ⁱyou will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For ^jthe Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 3:19

19 ^kThe Lord by wisdom founded the earth;
by understanding ^lhe established the heavens;

Ecclesiastes 7:23-25

23 All this I have tested by wisdom. ^mI said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me. 24 That which has been is far off, and ⁿdeep, very deep; ^owho can find it out?

25 ^pI turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20

19 For it is written,

^q“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 ^rWhere is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? ^sHas not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?