Quotes About Mystery

Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.

Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ëHere we areí?

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?

He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?