Job 15:8

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Job 15:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

8 Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.

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Job 11:6

and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

Psalms 25:14

The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.

Proverbs 3:32

for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.

Jeremiah 23:18

But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?

Amos 3:7

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

Matthew 13:11

He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

Matthew 13:35

So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.”

John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

Romans 11:34

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

Romans 16:25

Now to Him who is able to strengthen you by my gospel and by the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery concealed for ages past

Romans 16:26

but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith —

1 Corinthians 2:9

Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

1 Corinthians 2:10

But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

1 Corinthians 2:11

For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

1 Corinthians 2:16

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Job 12:2

“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

Job 13:5

If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!

Job 13:6

Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.