17 Bible Verses about Science

Great are the works of the Lord,
Studied by all those who delight in them.

and [that you are] a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the [spiritually] childish, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth—

Woe to you lawyers, because you have taken away the key to knowledge (scriptural truth). You yourselves did not enter, and you held back those who were entering [by your flawed interpretation of God’s word and your man-made tradition].”

O Timothy, guard and keep safe the deposit [of godly truth] entrusted to you, turn away from worldly and godless chatter [with its profane, empty words], and the contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge”—

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And the expanse [of heaven] is declaring the work of His hands.

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know and have understanding.

“Who determined the measurements [of the earth], if you know?
Or who stretched the [measuring] line on it?

“On what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
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When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God (angels) shouted for joy?
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When it burst forth and went out of the womb;

When I made the clouds its garment
And thick darkness its swaddling band,

And marked for it My [appointed] boundary
And set bars and doors [defining the shorelines],

And said, ‘This far you shall come, but no farther;
And here your proud waves shall stop’?
“Since your days began, have you ever commanded the morning,
And caused the dawn to know its place,

So that light may take hold of the corners of the earth
And shake the wickedness out of it?

“The earth is changed like clay into which a seal is pressed;
And the things [of the earth] stand out like a [multi-colored] garment.

“Their light is withheld from the wicked,
And the uplifted arm is broken.
“Have you entered and explored the springs of the sea
Or [have you] walked in the recesses of the deep?

“Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

“Have you understood the expanse of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.
“Where is the way where light dwells?
And as for darkness, where is its place,

That you may take it to its territory
And that you may know the paths to its house?

“You [must] know, since you were born then,
And because you are so extremely old!

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

Which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
For the day of battle and war?

“Where is the way that the light is distributed,
Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
“Who has prepared a channel for the torrents of rain and for the flood,
Or a path for the thunderbolt,

To bring rain on the uninhabited land,
And on the desert where no man lives,

To satisfy the barren and desolate ground
And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?

“Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

“Out of whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?

“Water becomes like stone [and hides itself],
And the surface of the deep is frozen and imprisoned.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
And marked off the heavens with a span [of the hand],
And calculated the dust of the earth with a measure,
And weighed the mountains in a balance
And the hills in a pair of scales?

He established the earth on its foundations,
So that it will not be moved forever and ever.

And He Himself existed and is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. [His is the controlling, cohesive force of the universe.]

The naive or inexperienced person [is easily misled and] believes every word he hears,
But the prudent man [is discreet and astute and] considers well where he is going.

“It is He who spreads out the north over emptiness
And hangs the earth on nothing.

For ever since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through His workmanship [all His creation, the wonderful things that He has made], so that they [who fail to believe and trust in Him] are without excuse and without defense.

The wind blows toward the south,
Then circles toward the north;
The wind circles and swirls endlessly,
And on its circular course the wind returns.

All the rivers flow into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full.
To the place where the rivers flow,
There they flow again.

In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.

And I set my mind to seek and explore by [man’s] wisdom all [human activity] that has been done under heaven. It is a miserable business and a burdensome task which God has given the sons of men with which to be busy and distressed. I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity, a futile grasping and chasing after the wind. What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is defective and lacking cannot be counted. read more.
I spoke with my heart, saying, “Behold, I have acquired great [human] wisdom and experience, more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of [moral] wisdom and [scientific] knowledge.” And I set my mind to know [practical] wisdom and to discern [the character of] madness and folly [in which men seem to find satisfaction]; I realized that this too is a futile grasping and chasing after the wind.

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
[It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veil
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.