Psalms 104:24

104:24 How many living things you have made, O Lord! ¹ 

You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; ² 

the earth is full of the living things you have made.

Isaiah 55:8-9

55:8 “Indeed, ³  my plans ⁴  are not like ⁵  your plans,

and my deeds ⁶  are not like ⁷  your deeds,

55:9 for just as the sky ⁸  is higher than the earth,

so my deeds ⁹  are superior to ¹⁰  your deeds

and my plans ¹¹  superior to your plans.

Romans 11:33

11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

Ephesians 1:8

1:8 that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

Ephesians 1:11

1:11 In Christ ¹²  we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, ¹³  since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

Ephesians 3:10

3:10 The purpose of this enlightenment is that ¹⁴  through the church the multifaceted wisdom ¹⁵  of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

Colossians 2:3

2:3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

¹ tn Heb “How many [are] your works, O Lord.” In this case the Lord’s “works” are the creatures he has made, as the preceding and following contexts make clear.

² tn Heb “all of them with wisdom you have made.”

³ tn Or “For” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV).

⁴ tn Or “thoughts” (so many English versions).

⁵ tn Heb “are not.” “Like” is interpretive, but v. 9 indicates that a comparison is in view.

⁶ tn Heb “ways” (so many English versions).

⁷ tn Heb “are not.” “Like” is interpretive, but v. 9 indicates that a comparison is in view.

⁸ tn Or “the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heavens” or “sky” depending on the context.

⁹ tn Heb “ways” (so many English versions).

¹⁰ tn Heb “are higher than.”

¹¹ tn Or “thoughts” (so many English versions).

¹² tn Grk “in whom,” as a continuation of the previous verse.

¹³ tn Grk “we were appointed by lot.” The notion of the verb κληρόω (klhrow) in the OT was to “appoint a portion by lot” (the more frequent cognate verb κληρονομέω [klhronomew] meant “obtain a portion by lot”). In the passive, as here, the idea is that “we were appointed [as a portion] by lot” (BDAG 548 s.v. κληρόω 1). The words “God’s own” have been supplied in the translation to clarify this sense of the verb. An alternative interpretation is that believers receive a portion as an inheritance: “In Christ we too have been appointed a portion of the inheritance.” See H. W. Hoehner, Ephesians, 226-27, for discussion on this interpretive issue.

¹⁴ tn Grk “that.” Verse 10 is a subordinate clause to the verb “enlighten” in v. 9.

¹⁵ tn Or “manifold wisdom,” “wisdom in its rich variety.”