Bible verses about "science" | Rotherham

¹ In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

⁷ Who stretcheth out the north over emptiness, hangeth the earth upon nothingness;

¹⁵ The simple, believeth every word, but, the prudent, looketh well to his going.

¹³ And I gave my heart to seek and to search out, wisely, concerning all things which are done under the heavens,––the same, is the vexatious employment God hath given to the sons of men, to work toilsomely therein, ¹⁴ I saw all the works which were done under the sun,––and lo! all, was vanity, and a feeding on wind. ¹⁵ That which is crooked, cannot be straight,––and, that which is wanting, cannot be reckoned. ¹⁶ Spake, I, in my heart, saying, As for me, lo! I have become great, and have gathered wisdom, beyond any one who hath been before me over Jerusalem,––and, my heart, hath seen much wisdom and knowledge: ¹⁷ yea I have given my heart, to know wisdom, and to know madness, and folly,––I know that, even this, is a feeding on wind.

⁶ Going unto the south, and circling unto the north,––circling, circling continually, is, the wind, and, over its own circuits, returneth the wind. ⁷ All the streams, flow into the sea, yet, the sea, is not full,––unto the place whither the streams flow, thither, do they again flow.

²² It is he who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, While, the inhabitants thereof, are, as grasshoppers,––Who stretcheth forth, as a curtain, the heavens, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

²⁰ For, the unseen things of him, from a world’s creation, by the things made, being perceived, are clearly seen, even his eternal power and divinity,––to the end they should be without excuse;

⁴ For, every house, is prepared by someone,––but, he that hath prepared all things, is, God.

⁵ He hath fixed the earth on its foundations, It is not to be shaken, to times age–abiding and beyond.

¹² Who, hath measured, with the hollow of his hand, the waters, Or, the heavens with a span, hath meted out, Or hath comprehended, in a measure, the dust of the earth, Or weighed, in scales, the mountains, Or, the hills, in a balance?

¹⁷ And, he, is before all, and, they all, in him, hold together;

⁴ Where wast thou, when I founded the earth? Tell, if thou knowest understanding! ⁵ Who set the measurements thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched out over it a line? ⁶ Whereon were the pedestals thereof sunk? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; –– ⁷ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸ Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth; ⁹ When I put a cloud as the garment thereof, and a thick cloud as the swaddling–band thereof; ¹⁰ And brake off for it my boundary, and fixed a bar and double doors; ¹¹ And said––Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further,––and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
¹² Since thy days [began] hast thou commanded the morning? or caused the dawn to know its place; ¹³ That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed; ¹⁵ That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered. ¹⁶ Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? Or, through the secret recesses of the resounding deep, hast thou wandered? ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death–shade, couldst thou descry? ¹⁸ Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell––if thou knowest it all! ¹⁹ Where then is the way, the light shall abide? And, the darkness, where then is its place? ²⁰ That thou mayest conduct it unto the bound thereof, and that thou mayest perceive the paths to its house. ²¹ Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many! ²² Hast thou entered into the treasuries of the snow? And, the treasuries of the hail, couldst thou see? ²³ Which I have reserved for a time of distress, for the day of conflict and of war? ²⁴ Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.
²⁵ Who hath cloven––for the torrent––a channel? Or a way for the lightning of thunders; ²⁶ To give rain over the no–man’s land, the desert, where no son of earth is; ²⁷ To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass? ²⁸ Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? ²⁹ Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar–frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth? ³⁰ Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm!

² Great are the works of Yahweh, sought out, by all who find pleasure therein.