Do you know the depths of God? Can we know the depths of God? Job 37

Job 37:23 (NASBStr)

“The Almighty — we cannot find Him;

He is exalted in power

And He will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.

To grasp the above statement by Elihu we need to recall something he would have heard Job utter a few chapters earlier in the book:

Job 23:3 (NASBStr)

“Oh that I knew where I might find Him,

That I might come to His seat!

It might be wise to look later in time and in Scripture at what Paul utters to young Pastor Timothy, as well:

1 Timothy 6:15-16 (NASBStr)

which He will bring about at the proper time —He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

Or, how about Moses:

Deuteronomy 29:29 (NASBStr)

“ The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.

Elihu is coming to an end of his treatment and talk to Job.  Job has, as we see, earlier, actually wondered how he might "find" God.    Elihu seems to have a contradiction between the first lines of this verse (we cannot find Him) and the second and third line (HE IS ...).   How can Elihu state in one breath we can't find God and then in another a definitive piece of knowledge about Him?  The answer is that there is much, much we can't and don't know about God.  We can't find Him like we find the sun, a cloud, or rain (what Elihu has been describing in this chapter as evidence of God).  But, there are some things we DO know about God because God has chosen to revel them to us.   Note Psalm 19:1; Psalm 139; Romans 1:18-19 as examples were we are told that creation reveals the character of God.   Enough, according to Paul, that we should know to worship Him.  We don't know everything or even much about God in the sense of comparing what we do know to who God is.   But, what we do know is that He is just and righteous in all that He does.  We can and should behold God as knowing Him, but not knowing all we can about Him.   Each day we see more of His grace and mercy and love.   Paul said it best here:

Romans 11:33 (NASBStr)

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!