#beyond understanding

[taviapinks]

If no one has told you today. You are amazing, you are loved, your beauty is unmatched, and you deserve the world. If you feel no one is rooting for you, I am. We’re all doing the best we can and everyone’s happiness has a different definition.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“If God's motives are hidden or beyond our understanding, then we have no way to know whether God is good, evil, or indifferent.”

-- John C. Wathey

You can’t claim your god is both mysterious and good.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

You Cannot Understand the Work of God

Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who works all things. — Ecclesiastes 11:5 | Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. Cross References: Psalm 139:13; Psalm 139:15-16; Ecclesiastes 1:6; Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 3:10; John 3:8

[quotesfromscripture]

Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God”? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.

- Isaiah 40:27-28 NIV (2011)

[quotesfromscripture]

“Oh the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! 

‘Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?’  ‘Who has ever given to God, That God should repay them?’ 

For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.” 

- Romans 11:33-36 NIV (2011)

[quotesfromscripture]

"There are three things that are too amazing for me,  Four that I do not understand:  The way of an eagle in the sky,  The way of a snake on a rock,  The way of a ship on the high seas,  And the way of a man with a young woman.”

- Proverbs 30:18-19 NIV

[quotesfromscripture]

I have not learned wisdom,  Nor have I knowledge of the holy ones. 

- Proverbs 30:3 NRSV

[quotesfromscripture]

Job 4:12-21

“A secret was shared with me  A hidden truth, whispered in my ear 

An unsettling thought  from visions of night  when falls  deep sleep  on  men 

The secret disturbed me  and made my bones shake 

A ruah passed before my face  and made my hair stand up 

A specter whose form I could not understand  and a voice that broke the silence: 

Can a mortal be more just than Eloah?  Or a man be more pure than his Maker? 

Behold  He puts no trust in his servants  And he charges his mal’ake with error 

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay,  who are crushed like a moth? 

From morning to evening they are shattered to pieces  Unnoticed, they are gone forever 

They cannot take their excellence with them  And they die without wisdom.” 

Part 2 of Eliphaz’s 4 part speech. 

Eliphaz seems like a pain to talk to. “Look Job, I know you’re sad, but I was just shown the secrets of the universe, and they said stop being whiny”.

temunah (form): The appearance or likeness of something. Eliaphaz says he could not discern the form of the ruah that was before his eyes. See also Exodus 20:4, Deuteronomy 4:12-15, and Deuteronomy 5:8.

mal’ake: the actual word being used is ubemal’akaw (and the messengers of his) which I shortened to the similar word mal’ake because the rest of the phrase was already part of the English sentence. See also Isaiah 30:4, Isaiah 44:26, 2 Chronicles 36:15-16, Psalm 91:11, Psalm 103:20, Psalm 104:4, Psalm 148:2, and Ezekiel 17:15.