Job 42:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

Who is hee that hideth counsell without knowledge? therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstood not, euen things too wonderfull for me, and which I knew not.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 40:5 : 5 O Lorde my God, thou hast made thy wonderfull workes so many, that none can count in order to thee thy thoughts toward vs: I would declare, and speake of them, but they are moe then I am able to expresse.
  • Ps 131:1 : 1 A song of degrees or Psalme of Dauid. Lorde, mine heart is not hautie, neither are mine eyes loftie, neither haue I walked in great matters and hid from me.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?
  • Prov 30:2-4 : 2 Surely I am more foolish then any man, and haue not the vnderstanding of a man in me. 3 For I haue not learned wisedome, nor atteined to the knowledge of holy things. 4 Who hath ascended vp to heauen, and descended? Who hath gathered the winde in his fist? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the endes of the world? What is his name, and what is his sonnes name, if thou canst tell?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?

  • 4 Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demaunde of thee, & declare thou vnto me.

  • 6 Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.

  • 3 For I haue not learned wisedome, nor atteined to the knowledge of holy things.

  • Job 15:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?

    9 What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?

  • Job 26:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3 Whome counsellest thou? him that hath no wisedome? thou shewest right well as the thing is.

    4 To whom doest thou declare these words? or whose spirit commeth out of thee?

  • 3 But I haue vnderstanding aswel as you, and am not inferior vnto you: yea, who knoweth not such things?

  • Eccl 7:23-25
    3 verses
    77%

    23 (7:2) All this haue I prooued by wisedome: I thought I will be wise, but it went farre from me.

    24 (7:26) It is farre off, what may it be? And it is a profound deepenesse, who can finde it?

    25 (7:27) I haue compassed about, both I and mine heart to knowe and to enquire and to search wisedome, and reason, and to knowe the wickednesse of follie, and the foolishnesse of madnesse,

  • 2 I knowe that thou canst doe all things, and that there is no thought hidde from thee.

  • 16 Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

  • 32 But if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more.

  • 18 There be three thinges hid from me: yea, foure that I knowe not,

  • 12 But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

  • Job 34:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

    34 Let men of vnderstanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken vnto me.

    35 Iob hath not spoken of knowledge, neyther were his wordes according to wisedome.

  • Job 9:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber.

    11 Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not.

  • Job 38:36-37
    2 verses
    74%

    36 Who hath put wisedome in the reines? Or who hath giuen the heart vnderstanding?

    37 Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? Or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,

  • 34 For who hath knowen the minde of the Lord? or who was his counsellour?

  • 20 Whence then commeth wisedome? And where is the place of vnderstanding,

  • 3 I will fetche my knowledge afarre off, & will attribute rigteousnesse vnto my Maker.

  • 5 I would knowe the wordes, that he would answere me, & would vnderstand what he would say vnto me.

  • 24 Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: & cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.

  • 16 Hast thou knowen the varietie of the cloude, and the wonderous workes of him, that is perfite in knowledge?

  • Isa 40:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 Who hath instructed ye Spirit of the Lord? or was his counseler or taught him?

    14 Of whom tooke he counsell, and who instructed him and taught him in the way of iudgement? or taught him knowledge, and shewed vnto him the way of vnderstanding?

  • 11 I will teache you what is in the hande of God, and I wil not conceale that which is with the Almightie.

  • 4 Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,

  • Job 11:6-8
    3 verses
    73%

    6 That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.

    7 Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?

    8 The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hel, how canst thou know it?

  • 14 Loe, these are part of his wayes: but how litle a portion heare we of him? and who can vnderstand his fearefull power?

  • 3 Call vnto me, and I will answere thee, and shewe thee great and mightie things, which thou knowest not.

  • 15 Wo vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lorde: for their workes are in darkenes, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?

  • 7 For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?

  • 18 Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Tell if thou knowest all this.

  • 20 Haue not I written vnto thee three times in counsels and knowledge,

  • 22 Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the hiest things?

  • 3 Lorde, what is man that thou regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him!

  • 22 Hee discouereth the deepe and secrete things: he knoweth what is in darkenes, and the light dwelleth with him.

  • 20 Shall it be told him when I speake? Or shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?

  • 13 With him is wisedome and strength: he hath counsell and vnderstanding.

  • 23 Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

  • 4 Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

  • 3 But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.