Job 12:13

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Job 12:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

12 Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.

13 Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

15 If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

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Job 32:6

So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.

Job 32:7

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.

Job 32:8

But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.

Job 32:9

It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.

Job 12:16

True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

Job 9:4

God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?

Job 28:20

From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?

Job 28:21

It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.

Job 28:22

Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor about it.’

Job 28:23

But God understands its way, and He knows its place.

Job 28:24

For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

Job 28:25

When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,

Job 28:26

when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

Job 28:27

then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.

Job 28:28

And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

Job 36:5

Indeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Psalms 147:5

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

Proverbs 2:6

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:7

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

Jeremiah 10:12

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

Daniel 2:20

and declared: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him.

Luke 21:15

For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

1 Corinthians 1:24

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Colossians 2:3

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

James 1:5

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

Proverbs 8:14

Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight and strength.

Isaiah 40:13

Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or informed Him as His counselor?

Isaiah 40:14

Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?

Isaiah 46:10

I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’

Romans 11:34

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

Ephesians 1:8

that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

Ephesians 1:11

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,