Psalms 139:6
Too wonderful is such knowledge for me: it is too exalted, I cannot attain unto it.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
In Context
5Behind and before hast thou hedged me in, and thou placest upon me thy hand.
7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee away from thy presence?
Cross References
Job 11:7Canst thou find out the experience of God? or canst thou find [the way] unto the utmost limit of the Almighty?
Job 42:3Who is he that dareth to conceal [thy] counsel without knowledge? Truly I have spoken of what I understood not, of things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Psalms 40:5(40:6) Many things hast thou done, O Lord my God; thy wonderful deeds and thy thoughts toward us—there is none to be compared unto thee—will I tell and speak of, [though] they are too numerous to be counted.
Proverbs 30:18Three things there are which are too wonderful for me; and four, which I know not:
Matthew Henry on Psalms 139:2-7
The Omniscience of God. 1 O Lord , thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord , thou knowest it altogether. 5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. David here lays down this great doctrine,… Read the whole commentary →