Ignorance
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Ignorance’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 71 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Job 8:9 OT
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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Job 11:7 OT
“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
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Job 11:8 OT
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
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Job 11:12 OT
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.
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Job 28:12 OT
“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
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Job 28:13 OT
Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
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Job 28:20 OT
Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?
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Job 28:21 OT
Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
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Job 36:26 OT
Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
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Job 36:29 OT
Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?
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Job 37:5 OT
God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.
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Job 37:15 OT
Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
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Job 37:16 OT
Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
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Job 37:19 OT
Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.
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Job 37:23 OT
We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
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Psalms 139:6 OT
This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
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For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, in the…
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Proverbs 8:5 OT
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
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She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, to call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways, “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,…
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It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
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A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
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A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
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Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
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A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.