Quotes About Perception

The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.

“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

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

For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me,

If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.

if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.

For God speaks in one way and in another, yet no one notices.

For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.

For Job has declared, ëI am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar.

He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

They saw and were astounded; they fled in terror.

See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”