Verse 8

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:6 : 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • 1 Cor 2:10-12 : 10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit. 12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
  • Job 38:36 : 36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
  • Job 33:4 : 4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
  • Job 35:11 : 11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
  • 1 Kgs 3:12 : 12 behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.
  • 1 Kgs 4:29 : 29 God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.
  • 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
  • Dan 1:17 : 17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
  • Dan 2:21 : 21 He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;
  • 2 Tim 3:16 : 16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
  • Job 4:12-21 : 12 "Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 14 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up. 16 It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, 17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? 18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! 20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. 21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
  • 1 Kgs 3:28 : 28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
  • Gen 41:39 : 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
  • Job 33:16 : 16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,