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"Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
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God is Unsearchable
All commentators agree that Zophar's rhetorical question establishes a core truth: God's infinite nature is beyond the full grasp of the finite human mind. Albert Barnes notes that even the most diligent 'searching' falls short. This isn't a failure of human effort but a fundamental reality of the Creator-creature distinction. We can know things about God, but we cannot comprehend Him 'unto perfection.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Canst then, by searching, find out God? - In order to illustrate the sentiment which he had just expressed, that the secrets of div…
19th Century
Anglican
Can you by searching find out God? Literally, can you attain to the searching out of God?
Baptist
What wonderful questions these are! How they ought to convict those who glibly talk of God as if they could measure him with a measuring stick, and…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Can you by searching find out God ? God is not to be found out by human search; that there is a God may be found out…
Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, and concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be hu…
13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding speech (Job 10:16), Job had remarked with wonder that among the evils he was suffering, he was being tormented by his …
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