wise: having real skill or sound judgment; a person who truly knows how to live or work well
At its core this word marks someone who is genuinely good at something, whether that is a craft learned with the hands or the deeper art of living rightly. The same word covers the expert builder, the sound judge of a dispute, the person whose life shows godly good sense, and the learned thinker admired by the world.
The New Testament keeps that full range but adds a sharp edge to it. Again and again, especially in Paul's letters to Corinth, the word is turned on the clever and the educated of the age with heavy irony: the very people the world calls wise are the ones whose wisdom God overturns and shames. So the same label can be a real compliment or a cutting one, and only the setting tells you which.
Above all human wisdom stands the wisdom of God, who alone is truly wise and whose apparent foolishness outstrips the best human cleverness. The word therefore stretches from a skilled tradesman all the way up to God himself, and the reader has to watch whose wisdom is in view.