English Standard Version
Job 11:7
7"Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
Job 11:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
- New International Version (NIV)“Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Can you solve the mysteries of God? Can you discover everything about the Almighty?
Context of Job 11:7
5But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you, 6and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves. "Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? 8It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know? 9Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
Read all of Job 11Job 11:7 word by word
הַחֵ֣קֶר אֱל֣וֹהַ תִּמְצָ֑א אִ֤ם עַד־תַּכְלִ֖ית שַׁדַּ֣י תִּמְצָֽא׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:7
- Job 5:9who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
- Job 26:14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
- Job 37:23The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
- Psalms 77:19Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen.
- Psalms 145:3Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
- Isaiah 40:28Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
- Matthew 11:27All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
- Romans 11:33Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
- 1 Corinthians 2:10these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
- Ephesians 3:8To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Commentaries on Job 11:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Canst thou by searching find out God? - What is God? A Being self-existent, eternal, infinite, immense, without bounds, incomprehensible either by mind, or time, or space. Who then can find this Being out? Who can fathom his depths, ascend to his heights, extend to his breadths, and comprehend the infinitude of his perfections?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Canst then, by searching, find out God? - In order to illustrate the sentiment which he had just expressed, that the secrets of divine wisdom must be far above our comprehension, Zophar introduces here this sublime description of God - a description which seems to have the form and force of a proverb. It seems to have been a settled opinion that man could not find out the Almighty to perfection by his own powers - a sentiment, which is as true now, as it…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-12Verses 7-12 Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be humbled. God sees this concerning vain man, that he would be wise, would be thought so, though he is born like a wild ass's colt, so unteachable and untameable. Man is a vain creature; empty, so the word is. Yet he is a proud creature, and self-conceited. He would be wise, would be thought so, though he…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7discover the limits of the Almighty: No one can fully understand the Almighty, who is beyond the heavens, the place of dead people, the land, and the sea (11:8–9).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Rather, "Penetrate to the perfections of the Almighty" (Job 9:10; Psa 139:6).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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