17- Wisdom And Questions

WISDOM AND QUESTIONS

These are questions designed to help understand our own limitations and foolishness as well as the greatness, the power and love of God. Most of the time no answers are explicitly expected as the answer should be clear to those growing in wisdom. Questions found in the Book Of Proverbs dominate this category. In each of the questions below, please specify who the question is speaking for (God / Satan/ self/ Others.) and ask why.

1.    How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? (Deuteronomy 32:30)

2.    And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods? (2 Samuel 7:23)

3.    Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? (1 Kings 3:9)

4.    Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? (1 Kings 3:9)

5.    Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? (1 Kings 3:9)

6.    And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? (2 Kings 2:14)

7.But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? (1 Chronicles 29:14) 8.But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? (2 Chronicles 6:18)

9.For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14) 10.Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? (Job 3:23)

11.How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? (Job 4:19) 12.Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? (Job 4:21) 13.Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? (Job 6:5) 14.Or loweth the ox over his fodder? (Job 6:5) 15.Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? (Job 6:6) 16.Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? (Job 6:6) 17.Should not the multitude of words be answered? (Job 11:2) 18.And should a man full of talk be justified? (Job 11:2) 19.If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? (Job 11:10) 20.For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? (Job 11:11) 21.Doth not the ear try words? (Job 12:11) 22.And the mouth taste his meat? (Job 12:11) 23.Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? (Job 14:4) 24.But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? (Job 14:10)

25.If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. (Job 14:14) 26.What is man, that he should be clean? (Job 15:14) 27.And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (Job 15:14) 28.How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? (Job 15:16) 29.Shall vain words have an end? (Job 16:3) 30.Shall any teach God knowledge? (Job 21:22)

31.Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? (Job 24:1) 32.But where shall wisdom be found? (Job 28:12) 33.If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalms 11:3) 34.Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? (Psalms 14:4) 35.For who is God save the LORD? (Psalms 18:31) 36.Or who is a rock save our God? (Psalms 18:31) 37.Who can understand his errors? (Psalms 19:12) 38.Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? (Psalms 24:3) 39.Or who shall stand in his holy place? (Psalms 24:3) 40.Who is this King of glory? (Psalms 24:8) 41.Who is this King of glory? (Psalms 24:10)

42.What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? (Psalms 34:12) 43.Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? (Psalms 53:4) 44.Why leap ye, ye high hills? (Psalms 68:16)

45.Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? (Psalms 76:7) 46.Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? (Psalms 77:13) 47.For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? (Psalms 89:6) 48.Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? (Psalms 89:6) 49.What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? (Psalms 89:48) 50.Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? (Psalms 89:48) 51.Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? (Psalms 106:2) 52.Who can shew forth all his praise? (Psalms 106:2) 53.What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? (Psalms 114:5) 54.Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? (Psalms 114:5) 55.Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? (Psalms 114:6) 56.BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? (Psalms 119:9) 57.How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a strange land? (Psalms 137:4) 58.How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? (Proverbs 1:22) 59.And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? (Proverbs 1:22) 60.Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? (Proverbs 6:27) 61.Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? (Proverbs 6:28) 62.Doth not wisdom cry? (Proverbs 8:1) 63.And understanding put forth her voice? (Proverbs 8:1) 64.Do they not err that devise evil? (Proverbs 14:22)

65.    Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? (Proverbs 15:11)

66.    Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it? (Proverbs 17:16)

67.    The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? (Proverbs 18:14)

68.    All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? Proverbs 19:7)

69.Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? (Proverbs 20:6) 70.Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? (Proverbs 20:9)

71.    Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? (Proverbs 20:24)

72.The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? (Proverbs 21:27) 73.Seest thou a man diligent in his business? (Proverbs 22:29) 74.Who hath woe? (Proverbs 23:29) 75.Who hath sorrow? (Proverbs 23:29) 76.Who hath contentions? (Proverbs 23:29) 77.Who hath babbling? (Proverbs 23:29) 78.Who hath wounds without cause? (Proverbs 23:29) 79.Who hath redness of eyes? (Proverbs 23:29)

80.For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? (Proverbs 24:22) 81.Hast thou found honey? (Proverbs 25:16) 82.Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? (Proverbs 26:12)

83.Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? (Proverbs 27:4) 84.For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? (Proverbs 27:24) 85.Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? (Proverbs 29:20) 86.Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? (Proverbs 30:4) 87.Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? (Proverbs 30:4) 88.Who hath bound the waters in a garment? (Proverbs 30:4) 89.Who hath established all the ends of the earth? (Proverbs 30:4) 90.What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell? (Proverbs 30:4) 91.Who can find a virtuous woman? (Proverbs 31:10) 92.Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? (Ecclesiastes 1:10)

93.For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 2:22) 94.For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? (Ecclesiastes 2:25) 95.What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? (Ecclesiastes 3:9)

96.    Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? (Ecclesiastes 3:21)

97.    Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? (Ecclesiastes 3:22)

98.    Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? (Ecclesiastes 4:11)

99.    When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? (Ecclesiastes 5:11)

100.    And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? (Ecclesiastes 5:16)

101.    Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? (Ecclesiastes 6:11)

102.    For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? (Ecclesiastes 6:12)

103.Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? (Ecclesiastes 7:13) 104.That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? (Ecclesiastes 7:24) 105.Who is as the wise man? (Ecclesiastes 8:1) 106.And who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? (Ecclesiastes 8:1)

107.    For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? (Ecclesiastes 8:7)

108.    A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? (Ecclesiastes 10:14)

109.Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? (Isaiah 2:22) 110.Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? (Isaiah 10:15) 111.Or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? (Isaiah 10:15) 112.For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? (Isaiah 14:27) 113.And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? (Isaiah 14:27) 114.Whom shall he teach knowledge? (Isaiah 28:9) 115.And whom shall he make to understand doctrine? (Isaiah 28:9)

116.    Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? (Isaiah 29:16)

117.    Or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? (Isaiah 29:16)

118.Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? (Isaiah 45:9) 119.Or thy work, He hath no hands? (Isaiah 45:9) 120.Who art thou, O great mountain? (Zechariah 4:7) 121.For who hath despised the day of small things? (Zechariah 4:10)