Wisdom & Truth Verses
Every verse of God's eternal Word carries wisdom and truth. A home for all the rich teachings not captured elsewhere.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. {their...: or, leviathan}
Why died I not from the womb? {why} did I {not} give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants {which} never saw light.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter {in} soul;
Which long for death, but it {cometh} not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; {long: Heb. wait}
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. {by the breath...: that is, by his anger}
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.