'Reason' in the Bible
Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.
To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?
Because of thy reverence Doth He reason with thee? He entereth with thee into judgment:
There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.
Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
The goodness of reason and knowledge teach me, For in Thy commands I have believed.
Wiser is the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven men returning a reason.
Add not to His words, lest He reason with thee, And thou hast been found false.
I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.
See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason
Dead flies cause a perfumer's perfume To send forth a stink; The precious by reason of wisdom -- By reason of honour -- a little folly!
Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!
Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones -- foundations of earth! For a strife is to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason.