Quotes About Wisdom

“Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

Do you have an arm like Godís? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. He feeds on grass like an ox.

His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.

His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.

He is the foremost of Godís works; only his Maker can draw the sword against him.

Can anyone capture him as he looks on, or pierce his nose with a snare?

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?

Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!

Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?

Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

His chest is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

Then Job replied to the LORD:

“I know that You can do all things and that no plan of Yours can be thwarted.