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Job 11:7

Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the limits of the Almighty?
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Ephrem The Syrian

AD 373
These words mean, “Do you know what the Almighty will do at the end of his works?” I certainly grant that we have experience of things that are otherwise evident and manifest, but they only disclose to us the loftiness of heaven and all divine things. - "Commentary on Job 11.7"

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Perfectly? If not, it is rash to find fault. (Menochius)

Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604
13. What does he call ‘the footsteps of God,’ saving the lovingkindness of His visitation? by which same we are stimulated to advance forward to things above, when we are influenced by the inspiration of His Spirit, and being carried without the narrow compass of the flesh, by love we see and own the likeness of our Maker presented to our contemplation that we may follow it. For when the love of the spiritual Land kindles the heart, He as it were gives knowledge of a way to persons that follow it, and a sort of footstep of God as He goes is imprinted upon the heart laid under it, that the way of life may be kept by the same in right goings of the thoughts. For Him, Whom we do not as yet see, it only remains for us to trace out by the footsteps of His love, that at length the mind may find Him, to the reaching the likeness contemplation gives of Him, Whom now as it were, following Him in the rear, it searches out by holy desires. The Psalmist was well skilled to follow these footste...

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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