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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Job 8:9

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Job 11:7, 8, 12

Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? / They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know? / But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Job 28:12, 13, 20, 21

But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell? / No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living. / From where then does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Job 36:26, 29

Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable. / Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Job 37:5, 15, 16, 19, 23

God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend. / Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash? / Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 7:6–23

For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. / I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment, / crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 8:5

O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 9:14–18

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city, / calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight. / “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 19:2

Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:24

A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 22:3

The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 27:1, 12

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. / The prudent see danger and take cover; but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 6:11, 12

For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone? / For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 7:23, 24

All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me. / What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 8:6, 7, 17

For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him. / Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come? / 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.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 9:12

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Ecclesiastes 11:5

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.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 10:23

I know, O LORD, that a man’s way is not his own; no one who walks directs his own steps.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning John 13:7

Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 1:7

Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 17:23, 30

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you. / Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 8:24–26

For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see? / But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently. / In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 2:7–10

No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began. / None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. / Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 13:9, 12

For we know in part and we prophesy in part, / Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

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Ignorance: General Scriptures Concerning James 1:5, 6

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. / But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

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