Job 12:20

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

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

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

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

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

Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

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.

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.

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

The king said to his servants, “Don’t you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

The king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

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

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

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

Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

“ ‘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.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

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 he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;