Esther 2:22

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.

Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’ ”

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.

When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”

In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is from generation to generation.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”

He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,