'Know' in the Bible

“You will know also that your tent is secure and at peace,And you will visit your dwelling and fear no loss [nor find anything amiss].

“You will know also that your descendants will be many,And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

“Behold this; we have investigated it, and it is true.Hear and heed it, and know for yourself [for your own good].”

“He will not return again to his house,Nor will his place know about him anymore.

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,Because our days on earth are [like] a shadow [just a breath or a vapor].

“Yes, I know it is true.But how can a mortal man be right before God?

“It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know it,When He overturns them in His anger;

I am afraid of all my pains and worries [yet to come];I know that You will not acquit me and leave me unpunished.

‘Although You know that I am not guilty or wicked,Yet there is no one who can rescue me from Your hand.

‘Yet these [present evils] You have hidden in Your heart [since my creation]:I know that this was within You [in Your purpose and thought].

And [that He would] show you the secrets of wisdom!For sound wisdom has two sides.Know therefore that God forgets a part of your wickedness and guilt.

“His wisdom is as high as the heights of heaven. What can you do?It is deeper than Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). What can you know?

“But I have intelligence and understanding as well as you;I am not inferior to you.Who does not know such things as these [of God’s wisdom and might]?

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

“Behold now, I have prepared my case;I know that I will be vindicated.

“How many are my iniquities and sins [that so much sorrow should come to me]?Make me recognize and understand my transgression and my sin.

“What do you know that we do not know?What do you understand that is not equally clear to us?

“If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my pain is not relieved;And if I refrain [from speaking], what [pain or anguish] leaves me?

Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown meAnd has closed His net around me.

“For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives,And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth.

“Then beware and be afraid of the sword [of divine vengeance] for yourselves,For wrathful are the punishments of that sword,So that you may know there is judgment.”

“Do you not know this from the old days,Since the time that man was placed on the earth,

“You say, ‘God stores away [the punishment of] man’s wickedness for his children.’Let God repay him so that he may know and experience it.

“Behold, I know your thoughts,And the plots by which you would wrong me.

“You say, ‘What does God know [about me]?Can He judge through the thick darkness?

“Why does the Almighty not set seasons for judgment?Why do those who know Him not see His days [for punishment of the wicked]?

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;They do not want to know its waysNor stay in its paths.

“In the dark they dig into [the penetrable walls of] houses;They shut themselves up by day;They do not know the light [of day].

“I was a father to the needy;I investigated the case I did not know [and assured justice].

“For I know that You will bring me to deathAnd to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.

Oh, let Him weigh me with accurate scales,And let God know my integrity.

“For I do not know how to flatter, [in an appropriate way, and I fear that],My Maker would soon take me away.

“My words will express the uprightness of my heart,And my lips will speak what they know with utter sincerity.

“Why do you complain against Him?That He does not answer [you with] all His doings.

“Let us choose for ourselves that which is right;Let us know among ourselves what is good.

“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;The number of His years is unsearchable.

“God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man,That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it].

“Do you know how God establishes and commands them,And makes the lightning of His [storm] cloud shine?

“Do you know about the layers of thick clouds [and how they are balanced and poised in the heavens],The wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge,

“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?Tell Me, if you know and have understanding.

“Who determined the measurements [of the earth], if you know?Or who stretched the [measuring] line on it?

“Since your days began, have you ever commanded the morning,And caused the dawn to know its place,

“Have you understood the expanse of the earth?Tell Me, if you know all this.

That you may take it to its territoryAnd that you may know the paths to its house?

“You [must] know, since you were born then,And because you are so extremely old!

“Do you know the ordinances of the heavens,Or [can you] establish their rule over the earth?

“Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock give birth [to their young]?Do you observe the calving of the deer?

“Can you count the months that they carry offspring,Or do you know the time when they give birth?

“I know that You can do all things,And that no thought or purpose of Yours can be restrained.

“[You said to me] ‘Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge?’Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered that which I did not understand,Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.