Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Parallel translations
- WEB who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
- BSB the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
- NKJV Who does great things, and unsearchable, Marvelous things without number.
- NASB Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number.
- NLT He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles.
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Quick answer
God does great and unsearchable things and marvelous deeds beyond number. Eliphaz exalts God's limitless power and wisdom as the basis for trusting him.
Overview
Eliphaz launches into a hymn of praise to the God who works wonders past finding out. The theology is sound and beautiful, celebrating divine greatness and inscrutable wisdom. These very words later prove more profound than Eliphaz grasps, for God's unsearchable ways include the mystery of redeeming the world through the suffering of his Son, a marvel beyond all numbering.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 40:5Many, 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 more than can be numbered.
- Job 9:10Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
- Ps 72:18Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
- Ps 86:10For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
- Job 11:7–9Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
- Job 37:5God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
- Job 26:5–14Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
- Rom 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- Isa 40:28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
- Ps 139:18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
- Job 42:3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
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