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Prov. 25:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Iti is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search outl a matter.

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Deut. 29:29• ²⁹The hidden things belong to Jehovah our God; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever, to do all the words of this law. (Deut. 29:29)

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Job 29:16• ¹⁶I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out; (Job 29:16)

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Deut. 29:29• ²⁹The hidden things belong to Jehovah our God; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever, to do all the words of this law. (Deut. 29:29)

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Job 11:7‑8• ⁷Canst thou by searching find out +God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
⁸It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know? (Job 11:7‑8)

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Job 38:4‑41• ⁴Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
⁵Who set the measures thereof--if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
⁶Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,
⁷When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
⁸And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
⁹When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;
¹⁰When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,
¹¹And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
¹²Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,
¹³That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked might be shaken out of it?
¹⁴It is changed like the signet-clay; and all things stand forth as in a garment:
¹⁵And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken.
¹⁶Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
¹⁷Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
¹⁸Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
¹⁹Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,
²⁰That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?
²¹Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!
²²Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,
²³Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war?
²⁴By what way is the light parted, and the east wind scattered upon the earth?
²⁵Who hath divided a channel for the rain-flood, and a way for the thunder's flash;
²⁶To cause it to rain on the earth, where no one is; on the wilderness wherein there is not a man;
²⁷To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?
²⁸Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew?
²⁹Out of whose womb cometh the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?
³⁰When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.
³¹Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
³²Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons?
³³Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth?
³⁴Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee?
³⁵Dost thou send forth lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
³⁶Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the mind?
³⁷Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,
³⁸When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?
³⁹Dost thou hunt the prey for the lioness, and dost thou satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
⁴⁰When they crouch in their dens, and abide in the thicket to lie in wait?
⁴¹Who provideth for the raven his food, when his young ones cry unto *God, and they wander for lack of meat? (Job 38:4‑41)

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Job 39:1‑30• ¹Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? dost thou mark the calving of the hinds?
²Dost thou number the months that they fulfil? and knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
³They bow themselves, they give birth to their young ones, they cast out their pains;
⁴Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.
⁵Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
⁶Whose house I made the wilderness, and the salt plain his dwellings?
⁷He laugheth at the tumult of the city, and heareth not the shouts of the driver;
⁸The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
⁹Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy crib?
¹⁰Canst thou bind the buffalo with his cord in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
¹¹Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
¹²Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
¹³The wing of the ostrich beats joyously--But is it the stork's pinion and plumage?
¹⁴For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,
¹⁵And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the beast of the field may trample them.
¹⁶She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers; her labour is in vain, without her concern.
¹⁷For +God hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.
¹⁸What time she lasheth herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
¹⁹Hast thou given strength to the horse? hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?
²⁰Dost thou make him to leap as a locust? His majestic snorting is terrible.
²¹He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength; he goeth forth to meet the armed host.
²²He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword.
²³The quiver rattleth upon him, the glittering spear and the javelin.
²⁴He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, and cannot contain himself at the sound of the trumpet:
²⁵At the noise of the trumpets he saith, Aha! and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
²⁶Doth the hawk fly by thine intelligence, and stretch his wings toward the south?
²⁷Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make his nest on high?
²⁸He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness:
²⁹From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;
³⁰And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he. (Job 39:1‑30)

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Job 40:2• ²Shall he that will contend with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth +God, let him answer it. (Job 40:2)

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Job 42:3• ³Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. (Job 42:3)

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Rom. 11:33‑34• ³³O depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!
³⁴For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counsellor? (Rom. 11:33‑34)

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1 Kings 3:9‑28• ⁹Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad; for who is able to judge this thy numerous people?
¹⁰And the word pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
¹¹And God said to him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself discernment to understand judgment;
¹²behold, I have done according to thy word: behold, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there hath been none like unto thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
¹³And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and glory; so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
¹⁴And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will prolong thy days.
¹⁵And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
¹⁶Then came two women, harlots, to the king, and stood before him.
¹⁷And the first woman said, Ah, my lord! I and this woman abode in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
¹⁸And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; no stranger was with us in the house, only we two were in the house.
¹⁹And this woman's child died in the night; because she had lain upon it.
²⁰And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.
²¹And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; and I considered it in the morning, and behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.
²²And the other woman said, No, for the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this one said, No, but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
²³Then said the king, The one says, This that is living is my son, and thy son is the dead; and the other says, No, for thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
²⁴And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
²⁵And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
²⁶Then spoke the woman whose was the living child to the king, for her bowels yearned over her son, and she said, Ah, my lord! give her the living child, and in no wise put it to death. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine; divide it.
²⁷And the king answered and said, Give this one the living child, and in no wise put it to death: she is its mother.
²⁸And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice. (1 Kings 3:9‑28)

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1 Kings 4:29‑34• ²⁹And God gave Solomon wisdom and very great understanding and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
³⁰And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
³¹For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.
³²And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
³³And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
³⁴And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom. (1 Kings 4:29‑34)

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Ezra 4:15,19• ¹⁵that search may be made in the book of the annals of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the annals and know that this city is a rebellious city, which has done damage to kings and provinces, and that they have raised sedition within the same of old time, for which cause this city was destroyed.
¹⁹And I gave orders, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city of old time has made insurrection against the kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been raised therein. (Ezra 4:15,19)

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Ezra 5:17• ¹⁷And now, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the king's treasure-house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that orders were given by king Cyrus to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter. (Ezra 5:17)

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Ezra 6:1• ¹Then king Darius gave orders, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. (Ezra 6:1)

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Job 29:16• ¹⁶I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out; (Job 29:16)

• More than once is our attention called, in the Bible, to the inscrutableness of God’s counsels and designs. See Deuteronomy 29:29, and Romans 11:33-34. As the heavens are high above the earth, so, we are told, are His thoughts above ours. (“Proverbs Twenty-Five” by H.A. Ironside)

• He would have those in authority search earnestly His word that they may find out His mind and will. This is good and profitable exercise. (“Proverbs Twenty-Five” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; but the glory of kings is to search out a thing.