39 After that Pharʹaoh said to Joseph: “Since God has caused you to know all this,+ there is no one as discreet and wise as you are.+

18 And one of the attendants proceeded to answer and say: “Look! I have seen how a son of Jesʹse the Bethʹle·hem·ite is skilled at playing,+ and he is a valiant, mighty man+ and a man of war+ and an intelligent speaker+ and a well-formed man,+ and Jehovah is with him.”+

8 And his master commended the steward, though unrighteous, because he acted with practical wisdom;+ for the sons of this system of things* are wiser in a practical way toward their own generation than the sons of the light are.+

46 The officers replied: “Never has [another] man spoken like this.”+