Job 37:19 Cross References - ISV

¹⁹ Tell us! What are we to say to him? Can we prepare our case to face him when our faces are in darkness?

³ Like you, I also have understanding. I’m not inferior to you; who doesn’t know things like this?”

³ But I want to talk to the Almighty; and I’m determined to argue my case before God.”

⁶ “Now listen to my dispute! Pay attention to my arguments.

¹⁴ Indeed, these are the fringes of his ways, and how faint is the whisper we’ve heard of it! But who can comprehend the thunder of his might?”

²⁰ Wisdom is from God“From where, then, does wisdom originate? Where does understanding live? ²¹ It has been concealed from the sight of every living creature and hidden even from the birds in the skies.

² “Who is this who keeps darkening my counsel without knowing what he’s talking about?

³ You asked, ‘Who is this that darkens counsel without knowledge?’ Well now, I have talked about what I don’t understand— awesome things beyond me that I don’t know.

¹⁶ When I tried to understand this, it was too difficult for me ¹⁷ until I entered the sanctuaries of God. Then I understood their destiny.

²² Then, I was too stupid and didn’t realize I was acting like a wild animal with you.

⁶ Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it.

² Surely I am beyond the senselessness of any man; I do not perceive things the way human beings do. ³ I never acquired wisdom, but I know what the Holy One knows. ⁴ Who has ascended to heaven, and then descended? Who has collected the wind in his hands? Who has wrapped up waters in a garment? Who has established all the farthest points of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!

¹² Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

² Dear friends, we are now God’s children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when the Messiah is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.