Psalms 139:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

KJV

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ASV

Suchknowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.

WEB

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

YLT

Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.

DBT

O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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20 verses on the floor

Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Psalms 40:5
Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Psalms 131:1
Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Isaiah 40:28
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Psalms 145:3
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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): It is too wonderful for me; it is high. "Thou hast such a knowledge of me as I have not of myself, nor can have. I cannot take notice of all my own thoughts, nor make such a judgment of myself as thou makest of me." 2.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 139:6ROM 11:33 JOB 11:7-9
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 139:6ROM 11:33 PSA 92:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 139:6ROM 11:33 JOB 5:9
PSA 139:6PSA 40:5 JER 29:11
PSA 139:6PSA 40:5 EXO 15:11
PSA 139:6PSA 40:5 PSA 139:17-18
PSA 139:6ROM 11:33 COL 2:2-3
PSA 139:6PSA 40:5 PSA 71:15

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