Job 11:7

Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

In Context

6That he might shew thee the secrets of wisdom, and that his law is manifold, and thou mightest understand that he exacteth much less of thee, than thy iniquity deserveth.

8He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do ? he is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?

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Cross References

Job 5:9Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:

Job 27:11I will teach you by the hand of God, what the Almighty hath, and I will not conceal it.

Job 37:23We cannot find him worthily : he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

Psalms 77:19the voice of thy thunder in a wheel. Thy lightnings enlightened the world: the earth shook and trembled.

Psalms 145:3Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

Ecclesiastes 3:11He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot flnd out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

Matthew Henry on Job 11:2-7

The Address of Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? 4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. 5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; 6 And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know… Read the whole commentary →

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