Another of Job’s friends begins to speak, Zophar. As with Eliphaz, he does have some wise insights, but he joins Eliphaz in misapplying them. One of his more revealing bits of wisdom comes in the form of rhetorical questioning. “Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?” (11:7-8)
God is inexhaustible! That is, you cannot search Him out and discover everything there is to know about Him! In fact, the things we do know about God, we ONLY know because He chose to reveal them to us! Deut 29:29 – “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
God is infinite and eternal! He has no boundaries. He is not locked in by time, space, geographical location, or physical body. He has no limits beyond the standard of His holiness! His only boundary is the boundary between right and wrong. He never crosses it! However, in terms of His being and His perfect attributes, there are no limits!
God is transcendent! He is beyond us. He is over us. He is too big for us to get our arms around, our minds around, our hearts around! Our towers of Babel crumble at the blink of His eye!
God is omniscient! He knows everything! God has never said, “The more I know, the more I realize how little I know!” There is no “more” for God to know!
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