Quotes About Understanding

I too will answer; yes, I will declare what I know.

“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.

Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:

Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.

But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”

Then Elihu continued:

“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.

For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

Therefore listen to me, O men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wrong, and from the Almighty to act unjustly.

If you have understanding, hear this; listen to my words.

Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.í

Men of understanding will declare to me, and the wise men who hear me will say:

ëJob speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.í