Quotes About Wisdom

He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the streets.

Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

Who then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take place.

They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.

And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

Woe to him who says to his father, ëWhat have you begotten?í or to his mother, ëWhat have you brought forth?í”

Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ëSeek Me in a wasteland.í I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:

You said, ëI will be queen forever.í You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ëNo one sees me.í Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ëI am, and there is none besides me.í

You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you—your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.

This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.

For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not acknowledge them? From now on I will tell you of new things, hidden things unknown to you.

They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ëI already knew them!í

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.

If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.