Psalm 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Cross-references

Psalm 145:3 Parallel

Psalm 145:3 declares God's greatness unsearchable, echoing the theme that God's knowledge is too lofty for human grasp.

Psalm 71:19 Parallel

Psalm 71:19 declares God’s righteousness reaches to the heavens and asks 'Who is like you?' – a parallel awe at God’s incomparable nature.

Job 11:7-9 asks if we can fathom God’s mysteries using spatial imagery – directly matching the psalmist’s confession of God’s knowledge being too lofty.

Job 26:14 Parallel

Job 26:14 says we hear only a whisper of God’s power – echoing that we grasp only the outer fringe of His greatness.

Job 42:3 Allusion

Job 42:3 uses the phrase 'too wonderful for me' – Job admits he spoke without understanding, mirroring David’s humility.

Proverbs 30:2-4 confesses ignorance of the Holy One and asks rhetorical questions about God’s works – similar humility before God’s incomprehensible knowledge.

Romans 11:33 exclaims the depth of God’s wisdom and knowledge, calling them unsearchable – a NT echo of the psalmist’s awe.

Job 11:8 Parallel

Job 11:8 says God’s ways are higher than heaven and deeper than the deep – a spatial metaphor for the inscrutability of God.

Isaiah 40:28 explicitly says God's understanding is unfathomable, directly reinforcing the psalmist's confession of limited comprehension.

Proverbs 30:18 lists things 'too amazing' to understand, paralleling the psalmist's wonder at God's incomprehensible knowledge.

1 Corinthians 13:9 speaks of knowing in part, which parallels the psalmist's admission that God's full knowledge is beyond him.

Ecclesiastes 7:24 says true wisdom is far off and beyond discovery, similar to the psalmist's admission that God's knowledge is too lofty.