Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to 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?
American Standard Version
Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
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]?
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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Context Readings
God Can Do As He Pleases
6 and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of thee less than thine iniquity deserves. 7 Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to perfection? 8 It is high as heaven; what can thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what can thou know?
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Cross References
Romans 11:33
O the depth of wealth, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond finding out!
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Job 5:9
who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
Job 37:23
[O] the Almighty, we cannot find him out. He is excellent in power. And in justice and abundant righteousness he will not afflict.
Psalm 145:3
Great is LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Job 26:14
Lo, these are but the periphery of his ways. And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
Psalm 77:19
Thy way was in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters. And thy footsteps were not known.
Isaiah 40:28
Have thou not known? Have thou not heard? The everlasting God, LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.
Matthew 11:27
All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.
1 Corinthians 2:10
But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has known the mind of Lord that he will stand with him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good-news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,