Quotes About Wisdom

“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Therefore you must say to them, ëThis is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

How can you say, ëWe are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,í when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.

Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.

Even your brothers—your own fatherís household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

Then the word of the LORD came to me:

Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëEvery wineskin shall be filled with wine.í And when they reply, ëDonít we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?í

Listen and give heed. Do not be arrogant, for the LORD has spoken.