His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
His scales shut together as with a close seal belongs among the questions God put concerning the mysteries of Jehovah revealed in nature, mysteries that men of greatest intellect and the most profound scholarship cannot answer. The question was not posed in order to be answered, but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God. Its purpose is to teach that human wisdom is limited, and that the surroundings of daily life contain many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings.
It is therefore wrong to refuse belief in God because His infinite power cannot be comprehended, for He is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what lies open to limited comprehension. In both divine revelation and in nature God has given mysteries to command faith. By them men are kept ever searching, ever inquiring, ever learning, while an infinity still lies beyond.
His scales shut together as with a close seal belongs among the questions God put concerning the mysteries of Jehovah revealed in nature, mysteries that men of greatest intellect and the most profound scholarship cannot answer. The question was not posed in order to be answered, but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God. Its purpose is to teach that human wisdom is limited, and that the surroundings of daily life contain many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings.
It is therefore wrong to refuse belief in God because His infinite power cannot be comprehended, for He is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what lies open to limited comprehension. In both divine revelation and in nature God has given mysteries to command faith. By them men are kept ever searching, ever inquiring, ever learning, while an infinity still lies beyond.