Sion
I agree with your point/question, which I took to be:
Why do people who quote the Bible think it is enough just to put the book and verse as a reference without giving the name of the speaker and the context?
The answer is (as chavos pointed out) that those who quote the Bible have probably been tutored with the fact that you should always go back to the text to check that the quote you have been given hasn't been altered or taken out of context. Even if the quoter gives the context, how do you know they haven't misrepresented it. It is up to the reader/listener to make usre that they are no listening to "false prophets".
An example to illustrate your question would be:
Quote:
28 You say, 'Where now is the great man's house,
the tents where wicked men lived?'
29 Have you never questioned those who travel?
Have you paid no regard to their accounts-
30 that the evil man is spared from the day of calamity,
that he is delivered from the day of wrath?
31 Who denounces his conduct to his face?
Who repays him for what he has done?
32 He is carried to the grave,
and watch is kept over his tomb.
33 The soil in the valley is sweet to him;
all men follow after him,
and a countless throng goes before him.
- (Job 21:28-33)
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Without knowing that Job was going through an anti-God rant at this point one could think that the passage was saying that there is no justice for bad men in this world. When in fact the rest of Job says that this is not always the case.