God: Unsearchable

And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.

The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.

“Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”

Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?

Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

…the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? …

He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.

The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.

Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.

How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

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

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”

But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,