Wisdom & Truth Verses
Every verse of God's eternal Word carries wisdom and truth. A home for all the rich teachings not captured elsewhere.
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! {Oh...: Heb. Who will give, etc}
And {though} after my skin {worms} destroy this {body}, yet in my flesh shall I see God: {And...: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh}
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; {though} my reins be consumed within me. {another: Heb. a stranger} {though...: or, my reins within me are consumed with earnest desire (for that day} {within...: Heb. in my bosom}
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? {seeing...: or, and what root of matter is found in me?}
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath {bringeth} the punishments of the sword, that ye may know {there is} a judgment.
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for {this} I make haste. {I make...: Heb. my haste is in me}
Knowest thou {not} this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; {clouds: Heb. cloud}
{Yet} he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where {is} he?
The eye also {which} saw him shall {see him} no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.