Job 11:7-8
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7 Can you find out the depths of God?(A)
or find out the perfection of the Almighty?
8 It is higher than the heavens; what can you do?
It is deeper than Sheol; what can you know?
Psalm 139:6
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6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
far too lofty for me to reach.(A)
Psalm 139:17-18
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III
17 How precious to me are your designs, O God;
how vast the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sands;
when I complete them, still you are with me.(A)
Wisdom 17:1
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Chapter 17
Fourth Example: Darkness Afflicts the Egyptians, While the Israelites Have Light[a]
1 For great are your judgments, and hard to describe;
therefore the unruly souls went astray.(A)
Footnotes
- 17:1–18:4 The description of the darkness of the ninth plague is a very creative development of Ex 10:21–29. It betrays a wide knowledge of contemporary thought. For the first and only time in the Septuagint the Greek word for “conscience” occurs, in 17:11. There is no Hebrew word that is equivalent; the idea is expressed indirectly. The horrendous darkness is illumined by “fires” (v. 6), i.e., lightnings that only contributed to the terror.
Isaiah 55:8-9
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8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
nor are your ways my ways—oracle of the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
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