Canst thou by searching find out God? literally, Canst thou attain to the searching out of God? Canst thou suppose, that is, that, whatever thy wisdom, learning, subtlety, sagacity, power of insight, thou wilt be able to search out and fully know the character, attributes, modes of thought and action, of the Most High?
No. In one sense, all men do well to profess them. selves "Agnostics"—not that they can know nothing of God, but that they can never know him fully, never exhaust the knowledge of him. As the apostle says, "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God l how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?" (Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34). Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? rather. Canst thou attain to the perfection of the Almighty?
understand, i.e; his inconceivable perfectness.