Quotes About Wisdom

“What is this deed you have done?” Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely divine the truth?”

Then Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way!”

“How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked.

“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.

Now Israelís eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:

Come together and listen, O sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”

Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”

You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.

But Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same things by their magic arts.

After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,

The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.

When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?”

“Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.

“Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”

But Mosesí father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone.

Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the peopleís representative before God and bring their causes to Him.

Teach them the statutes and laws, and show them the way to live and the work they must do.