17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? 18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this. 19 Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
Job 38:17–19
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Job 38:32–34
32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs? 33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth? 34 Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
Job 11:6–8
6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves. 7 Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? 8 They are higher than the heavens—what ca…
Psalms 88:11–13
11 Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon ? 12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion? 13 But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
Sirach 1:5–7
5 The word of God most high is the fountain of wisdom; and her ways are everlasting commandments. (KJV) 6 To whom has the root of wisdom been revealed? Who has known her shrewd counsels? (WEB) 7 [Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest? and who hath understood… (KJV)
Job 28:19–21
19 Topaz from Cush cannot compare to it, nor can it be valued in pure gold. 20 From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell? 21 It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
Job 22:12–14
12 Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are! 13 Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness? 14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
Job 28:11–13
11 He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light. 12 But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell? 13 No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
Job 15:7–9
7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? 8 Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself? 9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
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