³ You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’^(A)
    Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me to know.^(B)

⁵ Many, Lord my God,
    are the wonders^(A) you have done,
    the things you planned for us.
None can compare^(B) with you;
    were I to speak and tell of your deeds,
    they would be too many^(C) to declare.

¹⁴ And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
    how faint the whisper^(A) we hear of him!^(B)
    Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”^(C)

² Surely I am only a brute, not a man;
    I do not have human understanding.
³ I have not learned wisdom,
    nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.^(A)
4 Who has gone up^(B) to heaven and come down?
    Whose hands^(C) have gathered up the wind?
Who has wrapped up the waters^(D) in a cloak?^(E)
    Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name,^(F) and what is the name of his son?
    Surely you know!

⁷ “Can you fathom^(A) the mysteries of God?
    Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
⁸ They are higher^(B) than the heavens^(C) above—what can you do?
    They are deeper than the depths below^(D)—what can you know?^(E)
9 Their measure^(F) is longer than the earth
    and wider than the sea.^(G)