13 Bible Verses about God's Ways Beyond Human Understanding
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"For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, and your ways [are] not my ways," {declares} Yahweh. "For [as] [the] heavens are {higher} than [the] earth, so my ways are {higher} than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
"Look, God [is] exalted, and we do not know [him]; the number of his years is unsearchable.
"The hidden [things] {belong to Yahweh} our God, but the revealed [things] {belong to us} [to know] and to our children {forever}, [in order] to do all the words of this law."
"Can you find [out] the essence of God, or can you find [out] {the ultimate limits} of Shaddai?
"Look, God is exalted in his power; who [is] a teacher like him? Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, 'You have done wrong'?
O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know [me]. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought from afar. You search out my wandering and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.read more.
For [there is] not a word [yet] on my tongue, [but] behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely. You barricade me behind and in front, and set your hand upon me. [Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is set high; I cannot [prevail] against it.
Have you not known, or have you not heard? Yahweh [is] the God of eternity, [the] creator [of] the ends of the earth! He is not faint, and he does not grow weary! There is no searching his understanding.
Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable [are] his judgments and [how] incomprehensible [are] his ways! "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?
For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? Thus also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
"For who has known the mind of the Lord; who has advised him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put {the past} in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end.