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The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (Dt 29:29)

Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. 13 Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man's words’? 14 For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. (Jb 33:12-14)

Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable. (Jb 36:26)

Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? -- God (Jb 38:2)
I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. (Jb 42:3)

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. (Ps 27:4)

But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, 17 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end. (Ps 73:16-17)

Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them. (Ps 11:2)

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. (Ps 119:18)

I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. (Eccl 3:10-11)

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. (Jer 33:3)

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. (Mt 7:7-8)

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
(Rom 11:33-34)

the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ (II Cor 10:4-5)

may [God] give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened (Eph 1:17-18)

... reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Col 2:2-3)

Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. (II Tm 2:7)

always [be] prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect (I Pt 3:15)

no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. (Jer 31:34)