Quotes About Perspective

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.

It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.

Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

“Do you think this is just? You say, ëI am more righteous than God.í

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

All mankind has seen it; men behold it from afar.

Do not be amazed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.

Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.

Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree as they increase their wealth.

until I entered Godís sanctuary; then I discerned their end.

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