Job 36:4
For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.
BSB
ASV
For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
KJV
For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
For truly my words are without falsehood. Even righteous men, when they see that they cannot be understood by their feeble hearers, are frequently wont to praise the things they say. Not because they are eager for their own praise, but to inflame their hearers with an anxious desire of listening to them; in order that, while they are uttered by their voice, they may be embraced, with more ardent affection, by the hearts of their hearers.
I will not "speak wickedly for God," as the friends (Job 13:4, 7, 8) --that is, vindicate God by unsound arguments. he that is perfect, &c.--Rather, as the parallelism requires, "a man of integrity in sentiments is with thee" (is he with whom thou hast to do).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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.
Through
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
leads to
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.
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
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.
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
Through
Psalms 49:3My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.
leads to
The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,