But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

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

Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.