Job 12:3

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

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

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

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

Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

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

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

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

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

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

“If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

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.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

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

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

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

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.