Quotes about Words

For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?

Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.

And I said, “Wisdom is better than strength, but the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heeded.”

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.

These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.