⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

⁷Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

⁸It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

¹²For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

¹²But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

¹³Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

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

²¹Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

²⁶Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

²⁹Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

⁵God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

¹⁵Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

¹⁶Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

¹⁹Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

²³Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

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

⁶For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

⁷And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

⁸Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

⁵O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

¹⁴For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

¹⁵To call passengers who go right on their ways:

¹⁶Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

²Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

²⁴Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

³A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

¹Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

¹²A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

⁴Who 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?

¹¹He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

¹¹Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

¹²For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

²³All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

²⁴That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?