16 Bible Verses about Human Ignorance

Then Yahweh responded to Job, out of a storm, and said: - Who is it that darkeneth counsel, by words, without knowledge? Gird, I pray thee - like a strong man - thy loins, that I may ask thee, and inform thou me:read more.
Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding! Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line? Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; - When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

For, in part, are we gaining knowledge, and, in part, are we prophesying, - But, as soon as that which is complete is come, that which is in part, shall be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to prefer as child, to reason as a child: now I have become a man, I have laid aside the things of the child!read more.
For we see, as yet, through a dim window, obscurely, but, then, face to face: as yet, I gain knowledge, in part, but, then, shall I fully know, even as I was also fully known.

And, now, lo! I, bound in my spirit, am journeying unto Jerusalem; the things which therein shall befall me, not knowing, -

But, concerning that day or hour, no one, knoweth, neither the messengers in heaven, nor the Son, - save the Father. Be taking heed, be watching, for ye know not, when, the season is: - As a man from home - having left his house, and given his servants the authority, to each one, his work, - and, unto the porter, hath given command, that he should watch: -read more.
Be watching, therefore, for ye know not, when, the master of the house, is coming, - whether at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at early morn; - Lest, coming suddenly, he find you, sleeping.

But, concerning that day and hour, no one, knoweth, neither the messengers of the heavens, nor the Son, - save the Father only. For, just as the days of Noah, so, will be the presence of the Son of Man; For, as they were in those days that were before the flood, feeding and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, - until the day Noah entered into the ark;read more.
And they observed not, until the flood came and took away all together, so, will be, the presence of the Son of Man. Then, shall there be two men in the field, - one, is taken near, and, one, is left behind: Two women grinding at the mill, - one, is taken near, and, one, is left behind. Be watching, therefore, for ye know not, on what manner of day, your Lord is coming. But there is, one thing, ye know - That, if the householder, had known, in what watch, the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert, and not have suffered his house to be dug through. Wherefore, ye also, be getting ready, because, in what hour ye are, not thinking, The Son of Man doth come.

Come now! ye that say - Today or To-morrow, we will journey unto this city here, and will spend there a year, and will trade and get gain, - Men who are not versed in the morrow - of what sort your life will be ; for ye are, a vapour - for a little, appearing, then, just disappearing! Instead of your saying - If, the Lord, be pleased, we shall both, live and do this or that;read more.
Whereas, now, are ye boasting in your pretensions: - All boasting like this, is, wicked,

Surely as a shadow, doth every man wander, Surely in vain, do they bustle about, he heapeth things up, and knoweth not who shall gather them in.

Do not boast thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

And he spake a parable unto them, saying - A certain rich man's estate, bare well. And he began to deliberate within himself, saying - What shall I do? because I have not where I can gather my fruits. And he said - This, will I do, - I will pull down my barns, and, greater ones, build, and gather, there, all my wheat and good things;read more.
and will say to my soul - Soul! thou hast many good things lying by for many years: be taking thy rest, eat, drink,be making merry! But God said unto him - Simple one! on this very night, they are asking, thy soul, from thee; The things, then, which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? So, is he that is laying up treasure for himself, and is not rich, towards God.

From Yahweh, are a man's steps, a son of earth, then - how can he discern his way?

Many are the devices in a man's heart, but, the counsel of Yahweh, that, shall stand.

I know O Yahweh, That not to a son of earth, pertaineth his own path, - Not, to the man who walketh, also to direct his own steps.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are falling asleep, - lest ye be sorrowing, even as the rest also, who are without hope; For, if we believe that, Jesus, died, and rose again, so, also will, God, bring forth with him, them who have fallen asleep through Jesus; For, this, unto you, do we say, by a word of the Lord, - that, we, the living who are left unto the Presence of the Lord, shall in nowise get before them who have fallen asleep;read more.
Because, the Lord himself, with a word of command, with a chief-messenger's voice, and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven, - and, the dead in Christ, shall rise, first, After that, we, the living who are left, together with them, shall be caught away, in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: - and, thus, evermore, with the Lord, shall we be! So then, be consoling one another with these words.

For I wish not ye should be ignorant, brethren, that, all our fathers, were, under the cloud, and, all, passed through the sea, - And, all, immersed themselves into Moses, in the cloud, and in the sea; And, all, did eat the samespiritual food,read more.
And, all, drank, the same spiritual drink, - for they continued to drink of the spiritual rock that followed them, and, the rock, was the Christ: - Nevertheless, with the most of them, God, was not well-pleased, for they were strewed along in the desert. But, in these things, they became, ensamples for us, to the end we should not be covetous of evil things, even as, they, also coveted; Neither become ye, idolaters, as some of them, - as it is written - The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to be making sport; Neither let us commit fornication, as, some of them, committed fornication, and there fell, in one day, three and twenty thousand; Neither let us be putting the Lord to the test, as, some of them, put him to the test, and, by the serpents, were perishing; Neither be ye murmuring, even, as some of them, murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

But, concerning the spiritually gifted, brethren, I am not wishing you to be ignorant. Ye know that, when ye were of the nations, unto the dumb idols, howsoever ye were being led, ye were seduced. Wherefore, I give you to know - that, no one, in God's Spirit speaking, saith - Accursed Jesus! and, no one, can say - Lord Jesus! save in the Holy Spirit.read more.
But, distributions of gifts, there are, yet the same Spirit, And, distributions of ministries, there are, and the same Lord, And, distributions of energies, there are, and the same God - who energiseth all things in all. But, unto each one, is given the manifesting of the Spirit, with a view to that which is profitable; For, unto one, indeed, through the Spirit, is given, a word of wisdom, but, unto another, a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit; - Unto a different one, faith, in the same Spirit, and, unto another, gifts of healings, in the one Spirit, And, unto another, energies of mighty works, and, unto another, prophesying, and, unto another, discriminations of spirits, - unto a different one, kinds of tongues, and, unto another, translation of tongues; - But, all these, energiseth the one and the same Spirit, distributing unto each one, peculiarly, even as it is disposed.

And God hath, indeed, set, certain, in the assembly, - first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that mighty works, then gifts of healings, helps, guidings, kinds of tongues.