Proverbs 25:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 4:29 : 29 And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.
  • Ps 103:11 : 11 For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.
  • Isa 7:11 : 11 Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.
  • Isa 55:9 : 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  • Rom 8:39 : 39 Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

Similar Verses (AI)

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    2 It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.

  • Eccl 7:24-25
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    74%

    24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

    25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

  • Job 11:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

    9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

  • Rom 11:33
    71%

    33 O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.

  • Job 22:11-12
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    71%

    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

    12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

  • Prov 20:5
    71%

    5 The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.

  • Ps 44:21
    71%

    21 Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

  • Prov 21:1-2
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    1 The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

    2 Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • Dan 2:30
    70%

    30 As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.

  • Ps 92:5
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    5 O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

  • Ps 145:3
    70%

    3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.

  • Ps 64:6
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    6 Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

  • Isa 29:15
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    15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

  • Job 28:12-14
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    70%

    12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

    13 Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

    14 The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

  • Ps 139:6
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    6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.

  • Job 17:4
    69%

    4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

  • Job 5:9
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    9 Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

  • Prov 17:3
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    3 The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.

  • 2 Chr 9:23
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    23 And all the kings of the earth came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put into his heart.

  • Prov 25:4
    69%

    4 Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

  • Job 38:36
    69%

    36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

  • Jer 17:9-10
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    69%

    9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

    10 I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

  • Job 28:23-24
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    23 God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

    24 For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.

  • Prov 15:11
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    11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17 Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

  • Job 3:14
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    14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

  • Job 42:3
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    3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

  • Job 36:26
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    26 Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

  • Eccl 1:13
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    13 And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

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    1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

  • 1 Cor 2:10
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    10 But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.

  • Deut 10:14
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    14 The Lord your God is ruler of heaven, of the heaven of heavens, and of the earth with everything in it.

  • Ps 33:15
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    15 He makes all their hearts; their works are clear to him.

  • Ps 113:6
    68%

    6 Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?

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    11 The king's request is a very hard one, and there is no other who is able to make it clear to the king, but the gods, whose living-place is not with flesh.

  • Dan 2:22
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    22 He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.

  • Ps 135:6
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    6 The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

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    5 Great is our Lord, and great his power; there is no limit to his wisdom.

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    33 Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

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    11 He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

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    24 In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.

  • Prov 3:19
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    19 The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.