¹¹ And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

¹³ And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

¹⁴ Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not; And he walketh on the vault of heaven.

¹¹ He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.

²¹ Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

⁷ And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

¹ O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known `me'.

² Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

³ Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.

⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

⁵ Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.

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

¹² Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land.

² And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.

¹² And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps; and I will punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil.