Job 42:3
Hebrew Text— Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
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There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
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!
The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
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.
My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
to him who alone does great wonders; for his loving kindness endures forever:
Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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?”
As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
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.
Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’ ”
What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.
God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.
For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.
Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand:
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.
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’
Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.
Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;