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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  • 2It 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
    2 verses
    74%

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

    25I 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%

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

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

  • 33O 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
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 21:1-2
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    71%

    1The 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.

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

  • 30As 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.

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

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

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

  • 15Cursed 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%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Jer 17:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

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

    10I 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
    2 verses
    69%

    23God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;

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

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

  • 17Then 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.

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

  • 3Who 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.

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

  • 13And 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.

  • 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.

  • 10But 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.

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

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

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

  • 11The 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.

  • 22He 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.

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

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

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

  • 11He 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.

  • 24In 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.

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