Today I received an email from one of my old neighbors in which she prayed and asked me to pray for the almighty God. In the attachment, I was informed that the center of the Bible is the God’s secret message:

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.” –Psalm 118:8

I like this verse. It says that even in old old days, people couldn’t trust each other. They had to resort to the mysterious God to appease their mind.

It also intrigues me whether the center verse of the Bible is indeed Psalm 118:8. I did a Google search on this. It turns out that it is approximately true. I assure you here that God do play probability because He invent the probability too.

The first comment is very interesting. When we talk about the center piece of the Bible, which Bible are we referring to? Certainly not the Hebrew one, or Catholic ones, or the modern one we nowadays use. It is probably the King James Version.

The shortest chapter is Psalm 117, and the longest is Psalm 118. There are 594 chapters before Psalm 118, and 594 chapters after. In the KJV, there are 31,174 verses in the bible and the center piece is in the Psalm 118. BUT, the number of verses is an even number, so there is no center verse after all.

In fact, the center verses (median) would be within these two:

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.

Anyway, these two verses express the same thing: trust the Lord instead of mortal things.

Digging things in the Bible is fun, as one of my colleagues joked: “We don’t need to do research. Everything is in the Bible. You just need to find it.”