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Can you find out the depths of God?(A)
    or find out the perfection of the Almighty?
It is higher than the heavens; what can you do?
    It is deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    far too lofty for me to reach.(A)

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III

17 How precious to me are your designs, O God;
    how vast the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the sands;
    when I complete them, still you are with me.(A)

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Chapter 17

Fourth Example: Darkness Afflicts the Egyptians, While the Israelites Have Light[a]

For great are your judgments, and hard to describe;
    therefore the unruly souls went astray.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 17:1–18:4 The description of the darkness of the ninth plague is a very creative development of Ex 10:21–29. It betrays a wide knowledge of contemporary thought. For the first and only time in the Septuagint the Greek word for “conscience” occurs, in 17:11. There is no Hebrew word that is equivalent; the idea is expressed indirectly. The horrendous darkness is illumined by “fires” (v. 6), i.e., lightnings that only contributed to the terror.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    nor are your ways my ways—oracle of the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways,
    my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

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