Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?
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?
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?
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 reveal to you the secrets of wisdom -- for true wisdom has two sides -- so that you would know that God has forgiven some of your sins. 7 "Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty? 8 It is higher than the heavens -- what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol -- 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 how fathomless his ways!
Ecclesiastes 3:11
God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.
Job 5:9
He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;
Job 37:23
As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.
Psalm 145:3
The Lord is great and certainly worthy of praise! No one can fathom his greatness!
Job 26:14
Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"
Psalm 77:19
You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.
Isaiah 40:28
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is an eternal God, the creator of the whole earth. He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom.
Matthew 11:27
All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
1 Corinthians 2:10
God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Ephesians 3:8
To me -- less than the least of all the saints -- this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ