Quotes About Growth

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.

So I thought: ëI will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.

Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.í

And Elihu went on to say:

And Elihu continued:

which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

Their young ones thrive and grow up in the open field; they leave and do not return.

For she leaves her eggs on the ground and lets them warm in the sand.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.

For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.