Job 11:12

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’ ”

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles .

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?