¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say unto him; `For' we cannot set `our speech' in order by reason of darkness.

³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

¹² For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

² Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;

³ And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.

⁴ Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?

⁶ `Such' knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.

²² So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was `as' a beast before thee.

¹⁶ When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;

¹⁷ Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.

³ Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

² Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?

²⁰ Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

²¹ Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.

¹⁴ Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

⁶ Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

² Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.