Quotes about Perspective

The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.

But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

And Elihu went on to say:

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.