6 Bible Verses about Not Understanding Other Things
Most Relevant Verses
For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled and bewildered by them]. I do not practice what I want to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate [and yielding to my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity].
Man’s steps are ordered and ordained by the Lord.
How then can a man [fully] understand his way?
“[You said to me] ‘Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge?’
Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Nor do you understand that it is expedient and politically advantageous for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
Evil men do not understand justice,
But they who long for and seek the Lord understand it fully.
The righteous man cares for the rights of the poor,
But the wicked man has no interest in such knowledge.
