Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



Let your mercy now be my comfort, as you have said to your servant.

My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.

Let your mercies come to me, O Lord, even your salvation, as you have said.


Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me wisdom in keeping with your word.


And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me wisdom in keeping with your word.


But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.