and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many-sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
Job 15:8 - New Revised Standard Version Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hast thou heard the secret of God? And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Were you present to hear the secret counsel of God? And do you limit [the possession of] wisdom to yourself? American Standard Version (1901) Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself? Common English Bible Did you listen in God’s council; is wisdom limited to you? Catholic Public Domain Version Have you heard the intentions of God, and will his wisdom be inferior to you? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee? |
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many-sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes his covenant known to them.
for the perverse are an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
For who has stood in the council of the Lord so as to see and to hear his word? Who has given heed to his word so as to proclaim it?
Surely the Lord God does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;
He answered, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth to speak in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”
I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
“For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.