Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock. Also, what profit for me was the strength of their hands, for full vigor had perished from them? They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin, read more.
those plucking mallows by the bushes, and broom roots for their food. They are driven forth from the midst; they cried against them as a thief. They dwell in the chasms of the valleys, in holes of the earth and in rocks. They bray among the bushes; they huddle together under the nettles; sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they have been whipped out of the land. And now I am their song; yea, I am their byword. They despise me, and they flee far from me; they do not spare spit from my face.

But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers. Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom. Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips. read more.
Would you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him? Will you lift up His person, or contend for God? Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him? He will surely blame you, if you secretly lift up persons. Shall not His highness make you afraid, and His dread fall on you? Your remembered sayings are like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay. Be quiet. Let me alone so that I may speak, and let come on me what may.

And Job answered and said, I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters. Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you should answer? read more.
I also could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

Are not mockeries with me? Yea, my eye rests on their insults. Verse ConceptsMockerymockers

And Job answered and said, How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words? And this, ten times you have blamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me. read more.
And if indeed I have erred, my error remains with me. If indeed you magnify yourself against me, and plead against me my misery,

But I say to you that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.

A fool's lips enter into argument, and his mouth calls for strokes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.


For in the multitude of dreams, both words and vanities abound; but fear God. Verse ConceptsBad DreamsDaydreamingMan's Conduct Towards GodMisleading DreamsPeople Being SilentFear God!

As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. Verse ConceptsProverbsWise Proverbsdrunkards




The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfStudyKnowledgeSeeking For Abstract ThingsValuing Knowledge


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The lips of the righteous send forth knowledge, but the heart of the foolish is not so. Verse ConceptsLipsIntellectual KnowledgeValuing Knowledge


The legs of the lame are not equal; so is a parable in the mouth of fools. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfLamenessLegsProverbsWise Proverbs


Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom. Verse ConceptsSilenceHow Silence Is WiseMan's Wisdom

Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you should answer? I also could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Verse ConceptsAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceThose Who Were Ignorant

Do not answer a fool according to his foolishness, lest you also be like him. Verse ConceptsSpeech, Power And Significance OfLike Bad PeopleAnsweringFoolsChanging Yourselfanswers

Do not accuse a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty. Verse ConceptsInjuryServanthood, In SocietySlanderSlavescriticismgossipingaccusations

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is wicked madness. A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?