Wisdom & Truth Verses
Every verse of God's eternal Word carries wisdom and truth. A home for all the rich teachings not captured elsewhere.
{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
This {is} one {thing}, therefore I said {it}, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort {myself}:
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. {abhor...: or, make me to be abhorred}
For {he is} not a man, as I {am, that} I should answer him, {and} we should come together in judgment.
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, {that} might lay his hand upon us both. {any...: Heb. one that should argue} {daysman: or, umpire}
{Then} would I speak, and not fear him; but {it is} not so with me. {it is...: Heb. I am not so with myself}
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}