Quotes About Wisdom

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?

For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.

Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?

From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.

And the LORD said to Job:

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

Then Job answered the LORD:

“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

I have spoken once, but I have no answer—twice, but I have nothing to add.”

Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: