Bible Verses About Reasoning

And Jehovah saith unto him, `Who appointed a mouth for man? or who appointeth the dumb, or deaf, or open, or blind? is it not I, Jehovah?

Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation , and on the fourth, of those hating Me,

for six days hath Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and resteth in the seventh day; therefore hath Jehovah blessed the Sabbath-day, and doth sanctify it.

`Ye do not do according to all that we are doing here to-day, each anything that is right in his own eyes,

Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.

Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.

Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.

Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

And call Thou, and I--I answer, Or--I speak, and answer Thou me.

How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?

For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:

And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

There is a way--right before a man, And its latter end are ways of death.

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

And now, O inhabitant of Jerusalem, and man of Judah, Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

What--to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!

Cause me to remember--we are judged together, Declare thou that thou mayest be justified.

`At that time my understanding doth return unto me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honour and my brightness doth return unto me, and to me my counsellors and my great men do seek, and over my kingdom I have been made right, and abundant greatness hath been added to me.

`Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,