Psalms 139:6

I cannot — Apprehend in what manner thou dost so presently know all things.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me - literally, “Wonderful knowledge away from me,” or, more than I can comprehend. It is beyond my reach; it...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXXXIX. God is Everywhere: He Knows Everything Oh that He would Destroy the Wicked. This Ps. is among the most spiritual productions of the OT. It...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6. Thy knowledge is wonderful above me Two meanings may be attached to ממני : mimmenni. We may read upon me, or, in relation to...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 734 THE OMNIPRESENCE AND OMNISCIENCE OF GOD Psalms 139:1-12 . O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitti...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Such knowledge is too wonderful - I think, with Kennicott, that פל...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Such knowledge is too wonderful, &c.— Grotius supposes the meaning to be, "Thy knowledge, or rather, thy omniscience, is so great, that it is i...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me: it is high, I cannot att...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

One of the very greatest of the Pss. No grander tribute has ever been paid to the omniscience and omnipresence of God. The Ps. is ascribed to David,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

High ] the word means 'inaccessible': cp. Deuteronomy 2:36 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Such... — God’s omniscience is for man at once transcendent, unattainable, impossible. Possibly the article has dropped away, and we should read...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 139:1-24 THIS is the noblest utterance in the Psalter of pure contemplative theism, animated and not crushed by the thought of God's omnisc...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the All-seeing God Psalms 139:1-13 The psalmist speaks as if there were only two beings in the universe-God and himself. In all literature ther...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The conception of intimate personal relation between God and man is perhaps more remarkably and forcefully dealt with in this song than in any other...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I would not make a chasm in the reading of these verses, because the latter of them, according to my view, throw a light upon the former. It may, no...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me ,.... Meaning either the knowledge of himself, such as God had of him, which was vastly superior to what...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 139:6 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it. Ver. 6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me , &c. It is such a knowledge as I cannot comprehend, much less describe. I cannot conceive, or even form...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Omniscience of God. To the chief musician. A psalm of David. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I am so far from equalling thy knowledge, that I cannot apprehend it, in what manner thou dost so perfectly know all things, even such as are most se...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “Nowhere,” says Perowne, “are the great attributes of God—His omniscience, His omnipresence, His omnipotence, set forth so strikingly a...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 139:1 . O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. «Thou hast explored me, as men dig in mines, and make subterranean excavations. Thou...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 139:1 . O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. God does not need to «search» us, for that implies a want of knowledge, a knowledge o...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

May the all-seeing God, of whom this Psalm speaks, look down upon us and bless us richly while we read it! Psalms 139:1 . O LORD thou hast searche...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

In this Psalm, David praises God by specially dwelling upon the one attribute of omniscience. If we really wish to praise God, we must think of him a...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This psalm is entitled, a psalm of David. All the Versions agree with the Hebrew in this. It must be regarded as one of the sublimest representatio...
The Biblical Illustrator

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The Biblical Illustrator

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. God’s all-knowledge If we had to take our trial for our lives before the tribunal of an earthly judge,...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A song of praise to God for his omniscience, his omnipresence, and his marvelous powers, ending with a prayer for the destruction of...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 11:7-9 ; Job 26:14 ; Job 42:3 ; Proverbs 30:2-4 ; Psalms 13:1 ; Psalms 40:5 ; Romans 11:33
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Thou God Seest Me Selections from Psalms 139:1-24 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The world today needs a new vision of the Deity of Christ. Our Lord...

⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 139:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Psalms 139:6