Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

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?

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, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves. 7 Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the limits of the Almighty? 8 It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

Cross References

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men's hearts, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.

Job 5:9

Who does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:

Job 37:23

As for the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in abundant justice: he will not afflict.

Psalm 145:3

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

Job 26:14

Lo, these are only parts of his ways: and how little a whisper is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Psalm 77:19

Your way is in the sea, and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.

Isaiah 40:28

Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Matthew 11:27

All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son will reveal him.

1 Corinthians 2:10

But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

1 Corinthians 2:16

For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind 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 Christ;

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