Texts From Wisdom Literature

This article of Scripture Texts is drawn mainly from my recent readings in the wisdom literature.

I made a covenant with my eyes
not to look with lust at a young woman.
Job 31.1

But there is a spirit within people,
the breath of the Almighty within them,
that makes them intelligent.
Job 32.8

Three names for God:
For the Spirit of God has made me,
and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Job 33.4

If God were to take back his spirit
and withdraw his breath,
all life would cease,
and humanity would turn again to dust.
Job 34.14-15

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
2 Timothy 4.2

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels (jars of clay), that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
2 Corinthians 4.7

You say you can’t see him,
but he will bring justice
if you will only wait.
Job 35.14

We The Kingdom
Count the Stars

Are you as strong as God?
Can you thunder with a voice like his?
Job 40.9

I will restore the years the locusts have eaten.
Joel 2.25

So I decided there is nothing better than to enjoy food and drink, and to find satisfaction in work. Then I realized that these pleasures are from the hand of God. For who can eat or enjoy anything apart from him?
Ecclesiastes 2.24-25

Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3.11

A house is built by wisdom
and becomes strong through good sense.
Through knowledge its rooms are filled
with all sorts of precious riches and valuables.
Proverbs 24.3-4

A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.
Ecclesiastes 4.12