Quotes About Wisdom

In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.

Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.

until his prediction came true and the word of the LORD proved him right.

to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.

Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.

because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.

Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.

Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the LORD.