Quotes About Truth

Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

Then Job answered:

Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,

by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

If you say, ëLet us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,í

then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.

Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.