16 Bible Verses about Human Ignorance

And Jehovah will answer Job from the whirlwind, and he will say, Who this darkening counsel in words without knowledge? Gird now thy loins as a man; and I will ask thee, and make thou known to me.read more.
Where wort thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding. Who set its measures, if thou shalt know? or who stretched the line upon it? Upon what were its bases impressed? or who placed its corner-stone? In the rejoicing together of the stars of morning, and all the sons of God will shout for joy?

For we know by parts, and we prophesy by parts. And when the perfected come, then shall that by parts be left unemployed. When I was a child, as a child I spake, as a child I thought, as a child I reckoned: and when I had become a man, I left unemployed the things of a child.read more.
For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known.

And now, behold, I, bound in the spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things going to happen to me in it;

And concerning that day and hour none knows, nor the messengers in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. See, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. As a man travelling, having left his house, and having given power to his servants, and to each his work, and he commanded the guard of the door that he should watch.read more.
Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at eve, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or morning. Lest having come suddenly he find you sleeping.

And concerning that day and hour, none know, nor the messengers of the heavens, except my Father only. And as the days of Noe, so shall be the arrival of the Son of man. For as they were in the days of the inundation, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noe came into the ark,read more.
And knew not till the inundation came, and took them all away; so also shall be the arrival of the Son of man. Then shall be two in the field; one shall be taken, and one is let go; Two grinding in the mill; one shall be taken, and one let go. Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord comes. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and would not have suffered his house to be undermined. Therefore be ye also prepared: for what hour ye think not, the Son of man comes.

Come on now, ye saying, To day or to morrow let us go to this city, and do there one year, and let us trade, and derive profit: (Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.) For you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, and should do this, or that.read more.
And now ye boast in your arrogance: all such boasting is evil.

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

Thou shalt not boast upon the day of the morrow, for thou shalt not know what a day shall bring forth.

And he spake a parable to them, saying, The farm of a certain rich man bore well: And he calculated in himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have not where I shall collect together my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my stores, and build greater; and there will I collect all my produce and my good things.read more.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened. And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be? So he treasuring up for himself, and not rich toward God.

From Jehovah man's steps; and how shall man understand his way?

Many purposes in a man's heart: and the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.

I knew, O Jehovah, that not to man his way; not to man to go and set right his step.

And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept. For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept.read more.
For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first: Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort ye one another with these words.

And I will not ye be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all immersed into Moses in the cloud, and in the sea; And they all ate the same spiritual foodread more.
And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank of the spiritual Rock following; and the Rock was Christ. But God was not contented with the most of them: for they were overthrown in the desert. And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired. Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand. Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

And concerning spiritual things, brethren, I wish you not to be ignorant. Ye know that ye were the nations, to dumb idols, as ye were led, being carried away. Wherefore I make known to you, that none speaking in the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema: and none can say Lord Jesus, but in the Holy Spirit.read more.
And there are distinctions of favors, and the same Spirit. And there are distinctions of services, and the same Lord. And there are distinctions of performances, and it is the same God performing all things in all. And to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit. For truly to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; And to another faith in the same Spirit; and to another graces of healings in the same Spirit; And to another performances of powers; and to another discriminations of spirits; and to another kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues: And all these works one and the same Spirit, dividing to each his own things as be will.

And whom truly God set in the church, first the sent, second the prophets, third teachers, then powers, then graces of healings, helps, directions, kinds of tongues.