Bible Verses About Philosophy

to watch until I would sin and then not absolve me of my guilt.

If I am wicked, woe to me! -but if righteous, I still don't dare raise my head, because I am so filled with shame, so soaked in my misery.

You rise up to hunt me like a lion, and you keep treating me in such peculiar ways.

You keep producing fresh witnesses against me, your anger against me keeps growing, your troops assail me, wave after wave.

"'Why did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died there where no eye could see me.

I would have been as if I had never existed, I would have been carried from womb to grave.

Aren't my days few? So stop! Leave me alone, so I can cheer up a little

before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and death-dark gloom,

The tents of robbers prosper, [the homes of] those who anger God are secure, those who carry their gods in their hands.

"But ask the animals - they will teach you -and the birds in the air - they will tell you;

or speak to the earth - it will teach you -and the fish in the sea will inform you:

every one of them knows that the hand of ADONAI has done this!

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the spirit of every human being.

Shouldn't the ear test words, just as the palate tastes food?

Is wisdom [only] with aged men? discernment [only] with long life?

"With God are wisdom and power; he has [good] counsel and understanding.

When he breaks something down, it can't be rebuilt; when he imprisons someone, he can't be released.

When he holds back water, there is drought; when he sends it out, it overruns the land.

With him are strength and common sense; both the misled and those who mislead are his.

He leads counselors away captive, he makes fools of judges.

He removes authority from kings, then binds them up [as prisoners].

He leads cohanim away captive and overthrows those long in power.

Those who are trusted he deprives of speech, and he removes the discernment of the aged.

He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.

He discloses the deepest recesses of darkness and brings light into shadows dark as death.