Quotes About Insight

Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!

To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?

Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?

No bird of prey knows that path; no falconís eye has seen it.

He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.

He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.

But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?

It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

Coral and quartz are unworthy of mention; the price of wisdom is beyond rubies.

From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?

It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.

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

then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.

When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,