Job 42:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

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  • Ps 40:5 : 5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be counted in order to You: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
  • Ps 131:1 : 1 Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes arrogant: neither do I concern myself with great matters, or with things too high for me.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
  • Prov 30:2-4 : 2 Surely I am more ignorant than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?

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    2Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

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    6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it.

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    3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the Holy One.

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    8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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    3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom? And how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

    4To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came from you?

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    2I know that You can do everything, and that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.

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    16When I thought to understand this, it was too painful for me;

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    32That which I do not see, teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

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    18There are three things which are too wonderful for me, indeed four which I do not know:

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    12But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

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