Job 11:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways!
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.
  • Ps 145:3 : 3 The LORD is great and certainly worthy of praise! No one can fathom his greatness!
  • Job 5:9 : 9 He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;
  • Job 37:23 : 23 As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.
  • Ps 77:19 : 19 You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.
  • Job 26:14 : 14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”
  • 1 Cor 2:10 : 10 God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
  • 1 Cor 2:16 : 16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.
  • Eph 3:8 : 8 To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ
  • Isa 40:28 : 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is an eternal God, the Creator of the whole earth. He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom.
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

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