Quotes About Understanding

Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?

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

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

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

Would He contend with me in His great power? No, He would certainly take note of me.

If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

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

Then Job answered:

How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!

To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.

Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?

No bird of prey knows that path; no falconís eye has seen it.

He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.

But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?

No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.

The ocean depths say, ëIt is not in me,í while the sea declares, ëIt is not with me.í

It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

Neither gold nor crystal can compare to it, nor jewels of fine gold be exchanged for it.