Job 32:11

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

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

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

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

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

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

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

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

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 to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

Don’t quench the Spirit.

When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.

Then Judah came near to him, and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and don’t let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.

to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.” Ziba said, “I bow down. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.”

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

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

“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

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

“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare

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

“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

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

“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

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

Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.

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

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

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

I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding:

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

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

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!

Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.

I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.

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,

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;