Quotes About Wisdom

The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

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

then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Then Job answered:

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

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.

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

He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

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.

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

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?”

Job continued his discourse:

my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.

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?