²¹ My son, may they not get away from your eyes.+ Safeguard practical wisdom and thinking ability,+

¹⁴ I have counsel+ and practical wisdom.+ I—understanding;+ I have mightiness.+

¹⁷ Also, he will go before him with E·li′jah’s*+ spirit and power, to turn back the hearts+ of fathers to children and the disobedient ones to the practical wisdom of righteous ones, to get ready for Jehovah*+ a prepared people.”+

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.+