Parallel Verses

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?

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?

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 thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity. 7 Can you discover the depths of God?
Can you discover the limits of the Almighty?
8 It is higher than the heavens; what canst thou do? It is deeper than Sheol; how canst thou know it?

Cross References

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments and his ways past finding out!

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made every thing beautiful in his time: even the world he has given over to their will, in such a way that no man can attain to this work that God makes from the beginning to the end.

Job 5:9

who does great things that no one can understand, and marvels that have no explanation;

Job 37:23

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out; he is excellent in power and in judgment, and in plenty of righteousness he will not afflict.

Psalm 145:3

Gimel Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

Job 26:14

Behold, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion have we heard of him? For the thunder of his power, who shall understand?

Psalm 77:19

Thy way was in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps were not known.

Isaiah 40:28

Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the God of the age is the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth? He does not faint, nor is he weary; and there is no one that can attain to his intelligence.

Matthew 11:27

All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no one has known the Son but the Father, neither has anyone known the Father except the Son and he unto whom the Son will reveal him.

1 Corinthians 2:10

But God has revealed this unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

1 Corinthians 2:16

For who has known the understanding of the Lord? Who has instructed him? But we have the understanding of Christ.

Ephesians 3:8

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of the Christ

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