⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too great for me to understand!

³ You asked, ‘Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?’
    It is I—and I was talking about things I knew nothing about,
    things far too wonderful for me.

⁵ O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us.
    Your plans for us are too numerous to list.
    You have no equal.
If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds,
    I would never come to the end of them.

¹⁴ These are just the beginning of all that he does,
    merely a whisper of his power.
    Who, then, can comprehend the thunder of his power?”

⁷ “Can you solve the mysteries of God?
    Can you discover everything about the Almighty?
⁸ Such knowledge is higher than the heavens—
    and who are you?
It is deeper than the underworld^[a]—
    what do you know?
⁹ It is broader than the earth
    and wider than the sea.

² I am too stupid to be human,
    and I lack common sense.
³ I have not mastered human wisdom,
    nor do I know the Holy One.

⁴ Who but God goes up to heaven and comes back down?
    Who holds the wind in his fists?
Who wraps up the oceans in his cloak?
    Who has created the whole wide world?
What is his name—and his son’s name?
    Tell me if you know!

¹ O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever?
    How long will you look the other way?