Quotes About Wisdom

Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.í”

For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,

but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.

They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.

So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.

Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!

If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,

A Psalm of Asaph. God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods:

They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.

If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.

May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.

How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,