Job 11:7
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Cross-reference
Job 5:9 declares God does unsearchable things — directly paralleling the rhetorical question about finding out God's depths.
Job 26:14 says we only hear a whisper of God's power — a direct parallel to the impossibility of comprehending God.
Job 37:23 states we cannot find the Almighty — echoing Job 11:7's question about searching out God.
Job 36:26 states God is great and we cannot know Him — a direct parallel to the unsearchable depths in Job 11:7.
Job 37:5 says God does great things beyond our comprehension — echoing the same theme of divine inscrutability.
1 Corinthians 2:16 quotes the same rhetorical tradition — who knows the Lord's mind? — but adds that believers have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:10 says the Spirit searches the deep things of God — directly addressing Zophar's rhetorical question about searching out God.
Psalm 145:3 declares God's greatness is unsearchable — a direct thematic parallel to Job's rhetorical challenge.
Romans 11:33 directly echoes Zophar's theme, declaring God's judgments unsearchable and ways past finding out — a clear parallel.
Matthew 11:27 reveals that the Son alone fully knows the Father — answering Job's rhetorical question about searching out God's depths.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 says man cannot find out what God has done — reinforcing the theme of God's incomprehensibility.
Isaiah 40:28 echoes Zophar's question, affirming God's understanding is unsearchable — a direct parallel on divine incomprehensibility.
Proverbs 30:3 echoes this same confession of lacking knowledge of the Holy One, reinforcing human inability to understand God.
1 Corinthians 13:9 says we know in part, directly affirming the limited knowledge of God implied in Job 11:7.
Jeremiah 31:37 uses the impossibility of measuring heavens to show God's unfathomable nature, same theme as searching out the Almighty.
Ecclesiastes 8:17 states man cannot find out God's work under the sun, paralleling the inability to search out God in Job 11:7.
Ecclesiastes 7:24 asks 'who can find it out?' about the deep and far-off, mirroring the rhetorical question about God's depths.
Exodus 33:23 describes Moses seeing only God's back, not His face — illustrating limits of perceiving God, echoing Job's question.
Proverbs 25:2 says it is God's glory to conceal matters — directly echoing the hiddenness of God that Job 11:7 challenges.
Psalm 139:6 says God's knowledge is too wonderful and unattainable — a precise parallel to Job 11:7's question about finding God.
Deuteronomy 29:29 echoes that secret things belong to God — reinforcing the boundary of human understanding that Job 11:7 questions.
Isaiah 40:12 describes God measuring creation, illustrating His limitless power — a response to the question of God's limit in Job 11:7.
Psalm 77:19 describes God's unseen path through the sea — illustrating the hiddenness of His ways that Job 11:7 highlights.