7 ‘Can you fathom the mysteries of God?Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
8 They are higher than the heavens above – what can you do?They are deeper than the depths below – what can you know?
9 Their measure is longer than the earthand wider than the sea.
10 ‘If he comes along and confines you in prisonand convenes a court, who can oppose him?
11 Surely he recognises deceivers;and when he sees evil, does he not take note?
12 But the witless can no more become wisethan a wild donkey’s colt can be born human.
13 ‘Yet if you devote your heart to himand stretch out your hands to him,