Wisdom & Truth Verses

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. {accomplished: or, cut off}

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. {vanity: or, iniquity}

Then Job answered and said,

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}

I also could speak as ye {do}: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and {though} I forbear, what am I eased? {what...: Heb. what goeth from me?}

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, {which} is a witness {against me}: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

He teareth {me} in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. {hath...: Heb. hath shut me up}