7-12 “Do you think you can explain the mystery of God?
    Do you think you can diagram God Almighty?
God is far higher than you can imagine,
    far deeper than you can comprehend,
Stretching farther than earth’s horizons,
    far wider than the endless ocean.
If he happens along, throws you in jail
    then hauls you into court, can you do anything about it?
He sees through vain pretensions,
    spots evil a long way off—
    no one pulls the wool over his eyes!
Hollow men, hollow women, will wise up
    about the same time mules learn to talk.

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    Can you see to the unseen side of God,
        or explore the limits of the Highest One’s[a] knowledge?
    Higher than the heavens—what can you do to reach it?
        Deeper than the realm of the dead—what can you know of it?
    Its farthest reaches exceed the ends of the earth;
        its breadth spans far beyond the sea.

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Notas al pie

  1. 11:7 Hebrew, Shaddai