Job 12:2

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

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

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”

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

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

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

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

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.

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.

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

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’ ”

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

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

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

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.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

So then death works in us, but life in you.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.

“ ‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

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

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them.

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

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

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

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.

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

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