Quotes About Guidance

Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

He deprives the earthís leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.

where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

I would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.

When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.

My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!