Quotes About Wisdom

Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.

Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

Then Job answered:

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

Then Job answered:

Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.