Quotes About Truth

The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

Then Job answered:

Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

Yet they say to God: ëLeave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?

Yet you say: ëWhat does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

Then Job answered: