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 limits of the Almighty?
King James Version
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Holman Bible
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?
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Verse Info
Context Readings
God Can Do As He Pleases
6
And [that He would] show you the secrets of wisdom!
For sound wisdom
Know therefore that God forgets a part of your wickedness and guilt.
“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]?
“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?
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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
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],