Parallel Verses

Amplified


“Can you discover the depths of God?
Can you [by searching] discover the limits of the Almighty [ascend to His heights, extend to His widths, and comprehend His infinite perfection]?

New American Standard Bible

Can you discover the depths of God?
Can you discover the limits of the Almighty?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Can you fathom the depths of God
or discover the limits of the Almighty?

International Standard Version

"Can you search through God's complex things? Can you uncover the limits of the Almighty?

A Conservative Version

Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to perfection?

American Standard Version

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

Bible in Basic English

Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Searching shalt thou and God? Shalt thou find the Almighty even to completeness?

King James 2000

Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the limits of the Almighty?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Can you find [out] the essence of God, or can you find [out] {the ultimate limits} of Shaddai?

Modern King James verseion

Can you by searching find out God? Can you perfectly find out the Almighty?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Wilt thou find out God with thy seeking? Wilt thou attain to the perfectness of the Almighty?

NET Bible

"Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

New Heart English Bible

"Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of Shaddai?

The Emphasized Bible

The hidden depth of GOD canst thou discover? Or, unto the furthest limit of the Almighty, canst thou attain?

Webster

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

World English Bible

"Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Youngs Literal Translation

By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Canst thou by searching
חקר 
Cheqer 
Usage: 12

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

God
אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

canst thou find
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

שׁדּי 
Shadday 
Usage: 48

Devotionals

Devotionals about Job 11:7

Devotionals containing Job 11:7

References

Fausets

Watsons

Images Job 11:7

Prayers for Job 11:7

Context Readings

God Can Do As He Pleases

6
And [that He would] show you the secrets of wisdom!
For sound wisdom has two sides.
Know therefore that God forgets a part of your wickedness and guilt.
7 
“Can you discover the depths of God?
Can you [by searching] discover the limits of the Almighty [ascend to His heights, extend to His widths, and comprehend His infinite perfection]?
8
“His wisdom is as high as the heights of heaven. What can you do?
It is deeper than Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). What can you know?



Cross References

Romans 11:33

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and decisions and how unfathomable and untraceable are His ways!

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.

Job 5:9


Who does great and unsearchable things,
Marvelous things without number.

Job 37:23


“The Almighty—we cannot find Him;
He is exalted in power
And He will not do violence to [nor disregard] justice and abundant righteousness.

Psalm 145:3


Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is [so vast and profound as to be] unsearchable [incomprehensible to man].

Job 26:14


“Yet these are just the fringes of His ways [mere samples of His power],
The faintest whisper of His voice!
Who can contemplate the thunder of His [full] mighty power?”

Psalm 77:19


Your way [of escape for Your people] was through the sea,
And Your paths through the great waters,
And Your footprints were not traceable.

Isaiah 40:28


Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become tired or grow weary;
There is no searching of His understanding.

Matthew 11:27

All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Son except the Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son [deliberately] wills to reveal Him.

1 Corinthians 2:10

For God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the [Holy] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things [diligently], even [sounding and measuring] the [profound] depths of God [the divine counsels and things far beyond human understanding].

1 Corinthians 2:16

For who has known the mind and purposes of the Lord, so as to instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ [to be guided by His thoughts and purposes].

Ephesians 3:8

To me, [though I am] the very least of all the saints (God’s people), this grace [which is undeserved] was graciously given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the good news of the incomprehensible riches of Christ [that spiritual wealth which no one can fully understand],

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