Quotes About Wisdom

“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.

My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

You are the most handsome of men; grace has anointed your lips, since God has blessed you forever.

Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your fatherís house,

consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,

My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:

For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,

For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.