Wisdom & Truth Verses
Every verse of God's eternal Word carries wisdom and truth. A home for all the rich teachings not captured elsewhere.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, {which are} as wind?
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for {it is} evident unto you if I lie. {evident...: Heb. before your face}
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. {the night...: Heb. the evening be measured?}
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no {more}: thine eyes {are} upon me, and I {am} not. {I am...: that is, I can live no longer}
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
So that my soul chooseth strangling, {and} death rather than my life. {life: Heb. bones}