Job 42:3
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
KJV
Quis est iste qui celat consilium absque scientia ? ideo insipienter locutus sum, et quæ ultra modum excederent scientiam meam.
Vulgate
τίς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ κρύπτων σε βουλήν; φειδόμενος δὲ ῥημάτων, καὶ σὲ οἴεται κρύπτειν; τίς δὲ ἀναγγελεῖ μοι ἃ οὐκ ᾔδειν, μεγάλα καὶ θαυμαστὰ ἃ οὐκ ἠπιστάμην;
LXX
Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
ASV
מִ֤י זֶ֨ה מַעְלִ֥ים עֵצָ֗ה בְּֽלִ֫י דָ֥עַת לָ/כֵ֣ן הִ֭גַּדְתִּי וְ/לֹ֣א אָבִ֑ין נִפְלָא֥וֹת מִ֝מֶּ֗/נִּי וְ/לֹ֣א אֵדָֽע
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§299Because God creates through wisdom, his creation is ordered: "You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight."151 The universe, created in and by the eternal Word, the "image of the invisible God", is destined for and addressed to man, himself created in the "image of God" and called to a personal relationship with God.152 Our human understanding, which shares in…
Cross-references
- Jer 30:21 — And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his hea
- Job 5:9 — Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
- Job 6:30 — Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
- Job 15:6 — Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
- Job 38:2 — Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- Job 38:2 — Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- Prov 25:2 — It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
- Prov 30:2 — Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
- Prov 30:18 — There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
- Ps 40:5 — Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are
- Ps 77:10 — And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
- Ps 131:1 — Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
- Ps 131:1 — Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
- Ps 139:4 — For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
- Ps 139:6 — Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
- Ps 139:6 — Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.