Quotes About Mystery

Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?

His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.

He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

You asked, ëWho is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?í Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.

Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.

I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

As the heavens are high and the earth is deep, so the hearts of kings cannot be searched.

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son—surely you know!

There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:

What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a motherís womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”

Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”