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6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
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.
Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
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?
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)David here lays down this great doctrine, That the God with whom we have to do has a perfect knowledge of us, and that all the motions and actions both of our inward and of our outward man are naked and open before him. I. He lays down this doctrine in the way of an address to God; he says it to him, acknowledging it to him, and giving him the glory of it. Divine truths look fully as well when the…
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