Bible Verses About Ignorance: General references

Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?

The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it?

But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.

Whence then commeth wisedome? and where is the place of vnderstanding,

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all the liuing, and is hid from the foules of the heauen?

Diddest thou knowe when God disposed them? and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Hast thou knowen the varietie of the cloude, and the wonderous workes of him, that is perfite in knowledge?

As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,

And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.

And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.

(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.

Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,

I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.

Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.

I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.

For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.

He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.

Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,