Job 37:19
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Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
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But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.
Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.