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Job 11:7

NETBible	“Can you discover¹ the essence² of God? Can you find out³ the perfection of the Almighty?⁴
NIV © biblegateway Job 11:7	"Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
NASB © biblegateway Job 11:7	"Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty?
NLT © biblegateway Job 11:7	"Can you solve the mysteries of God? Can you discover everything there is to know about the Almighty?
MSG © biblegateway Job 11:7	"Do you think you can explain the mystery of God? Do you think you can diagram God Almighty?
BBE © SABDAweb Job 11:7	Are you able to take God’s measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 11:7	"Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
NKJV © biblegateway Job 11:7	"Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?
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KJV	Canst thou by searching <02714> find out <04672> (8799) God <0433>_? canst thou find <04672> (8799) out the Almighty <07706> unto perfection <08503>_?
NASB © biblegateway Job 11:7	"Can you discover <04672> the depths <02714> of God <0433> ? Can you discover <04672> the limits <08503> of the Almighty <07706> ?
LXXM	h <2228> ADV icnov <2487> N-ASN kuriou <2962> N-GSM eurhseiv <2147> V-FAI-2S h <2228> CONJ eiv <1519> PREP ta <3588> T-APN escata <2078> A-APN afikou {V-AMI-2S} a <3739> R-APN epoihsen <4160> V-AAI-3S o <3588> T-NSM pantokratwr <3841> N-NSM
NET [draft] ITL	“Can you discover <04672> the essence <02714> of God <0433> ? Can you find out <04672> the perfection <08503> of the Almighty <07706> ?
HEBREW	aumt <04672> yds <07706> tylkt <08503> de <05704> Ma <0518> aumt <04672> hwla <0433> rqxh (11:7) <02714>

NETBible

“Can you discover¹ the essence² of God? Can you find out³ the perfection of the Almighty?⁴

NET Notes

¹tn The verb is מָצָא (matsa’, “to find; to discover”). Here it should be given the nuance of potential imperfect. And, in the rhetorical question it is affirming that Job cannot find out the essence of God.

²tn The word means “search; investigation”; but it here means what is discovered in the search (so a metonymy of cause for the effect).

³tn The same verb is now found in the second half of the verse, with a slightly different sense – “attain, reach.” A. R. Ceresko notes this as an example of antanaclasis (repetition of a word with a lightly different sense – “find/attain”). See “The Function of Antanaclasis in Hebrew Poetry,” CBQ 44 (1982): 560-61.

⁴tn The abstract תַּכְלִית (takhlit) from כָּלָה (kalah, “to be complete; to be perfect”) may mean the end or limit of something, perhaps to perfection. So the NIV has “can you probe the limits of the Almighty?” The LXX has: “have you come to the end of that which the Almighty has made?”