יָדַע

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?