Quotes about Discernment
Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
- 1 Samuel 25:33
I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
- 2 Samuel 19:35
Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
- 1 Kings 3:9
So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this instead of requesting long life or wealth for yourself or death for your enemies—but you have asked for discernment to administer justice—
- 1 Kings 3:11
behold, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has never been nor will ever be another like you.
- 1 Kings 3:12
From Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their kinsmen at their command.
- 1 Chronicles 12:32
The people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people were making so much noise. And the sound was heard from afar.
- Ezra 3:13
I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
- Nehemiah 6:12
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
- Job 12:11
What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
- Job 15:9
How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
- Job 26:3
It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
- Job 32:9