Tree of Life Version
Job 11:7
7“Can you discover the mysteries of God? Can you find the limits of Shaddai?
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?
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit 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?
Context of Job 11:7
5But if only God would speak and open His lips against you, 6and show you the secrets of wisdom— for sound wisdom has two sides. Know that God has forgotten some of your iniquity. “Can you discover the mysteries of God? Can you find the limits of Shaddai? 8They are higher than the heavens —what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol —what can you know? 9Its measure is longer than the earth and wider 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 beyond comprehension, wonders without number.
- Job 26:14Indeed, these are but glimpses of His ways; how faint the whisper, we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His might?”
- Job 37:23Shaddai, we cannot find Him! He is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness He does not oppress.
- Psalms 77:19The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind. Lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
- Psalms 145:3Great is Adonai, and greatly to be praised —His greatness is unsearchable.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. Moreover, He has set eternity in their heart—yet without the possibility that humankind can ever discover the work that God has done from the beginning to the end.
- Isaiah 40:28Have you not known? Have you not heard? Adonai is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
- Matthew 11:27“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 chooses to reveal Him.
- Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how incomprehensible His ways!
- 1 Corinthians 2:10But God revealed these things to us through the Ruach. For the Ruach searches all things—even the depths of God.
- Ephesians 3:8This favor was given to me, the very least of His kedoshim, to proclaim to the Gentiles the endless riches of the Messiah
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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