Quotes about Understanding
So I commended the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry. For this joy will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 8:15
I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
- Ecclesiastes 8:17
I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:
- Ecclesiastes 9:13
A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
- Ecclesiastes 10:2
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
- Ecclesiastes 10:14
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
- Ecclesiastes 11:5
Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.
- Ecclesiastes 12:9
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
- Isaiah 1:3
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
- Isaiah 5:13
to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”
- Isaiah 5:19
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
- Isaiah 5:21
And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
- Isaiah 6:9