Wisdom & Truth Verses

{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

A land of darkness, as darkness {itself; and} of the shadow of death, without any order, and {where} the light {is} as darkness.

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

For thou hast said, My doctrine {is} pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

{It is} as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? {as high...: Heb. the heights of heaven}

The measure thereof {is} longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider {it}?

And Job answered and said,

I am {as} one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright {man is} laughed to scorn.

He that is ready to slip with {his} feet {is as} a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.