Job 34:2
“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
BSB
ASV
Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
KJV
Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
Hear my words, O ye wise men - Addressing particularly the three friends of Job. The previous chapter had been addressed to Job himself. He had stated to him his views of the design of affliction, and he had nothing to reply. He now addresses himself to his friends, with a particular view of examining some of the sentiments which Job had advanced, and of showing where he was in error.
Elihu differed in opinion from them, and yet he calls them wise and knowing men. Peevish disputants think all fools that are not of their mind; but it is a piece of justice which we owe to those who are wise to acknowledge it, though our sentiments do not agree with theirs. He appeals to their judgment, and therefore submits to their trial,
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 1:5let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
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Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.
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1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
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Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.
“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.