Quotes About Wisdom

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?

You have said, ëMy doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.í

But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,

and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

Then Job answered:

“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.