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• Job 5:8

  “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

• Job 5:9

  who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

• Job 5:10

  who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

• Job 5:11

  so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

• Job 5:12

  He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

• Job 5:13

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

• Job 5:14

  They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

• Job 5:15

  But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

• Job 5:16

  So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

• Job 5:17

  “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

• Job 5:18

  For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

• Job 5:19

  He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.

• Job 5:20

  In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

• Job 10:2

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

• Job 10:3

  Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

• Job 10:4

  Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

• Job 10:5

  Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

• Job 10:6

  that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

• Job 10:7

  Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

• Job 10:8

  “‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

• Job 10:9

  Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

• Job 10:10

  Haven’t you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

• Job 10:11

  You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

• Job 10:12

  You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

• Job 10:13

  Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

• Job 10:14

  if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

• Job 10:15

  If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

• Job 10:16

  If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

• Job 10:17

  You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

• Job 10:18

  “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

• Job 10:19

  I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

• Job 10:20

  Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

• Job 10:21

  before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

• Job 12:6

  The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

• Job 12:7

  “But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

• Job 12:8

  Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

• Job 12:9

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

• Job 12:10

  in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

• Job 12:11

  Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

• Job 12:12

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

• Job 12:13

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

• Job 12:14

  Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

• Job 12:15

  Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

• Job 12:16

  With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

• Job 12:17

  He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

• Job 12:18

  He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

• Job 12:19

  He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

• Job 12:20

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

• Job 12:21

  He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

• Job 12:22

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

• Job 12:23

  He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

• Job 12:24

  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.

• Job 33:12

  “Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

• Job 33:13

  Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

• Job 33:14

  For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

• Job 33:15

  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

• Job 33:16

  Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

• Job 33:17

  That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

• Job 33:18

  He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

• Job 33:19

  He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

• Job 33:20

  So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

• Job 33:21

  His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

• Job 33:22

  Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

• Job 33:23

  “If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

• Job 33:24

  then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

• Job 33:25

  His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

• Job 33:26

  He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

• Job 33:27

  He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

• Job 33:28

  He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’

• Job 33:29

  “Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

• Job 33:30

  to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

• Proverbs 25:2

  It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

• Acts 17:18

  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.

• Romans 1:19

  because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

• Romans 1:20

  For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

• 1 Corinthians 1:17

  For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News — not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

• 1 Corinthians 1:19

  For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

• 1 Corinthians 1:21

  For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

• 1 Corinthians 1:22

  For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

• 1 Corinthians 2:1

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

• 1 Corinthians 2:2

  For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

• 1 Corinthians 2:3

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

• 1 Corinthians 2:4

  My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

• 1 Corinthians 2:5

  that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

• 1 Corinthians 2:6

  We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

• 1 Corinthians 2:7

  But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

• 1 Corinthians 2:8

  which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

• 1 Corinthians 2:9

  But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

• 1 Corinthians 2:10

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

• 1 Corinthians 2:13

  Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

• Colossians 2:8

  Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

• Colossians 2:16

  Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

• Colossians 2:17

  which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

• Colossians 2:18

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

• Colossians 2:19

  and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;