Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. The psalmist acknowledges the incomprehensibility of God's omniscience; the knowledge described in verses 1-5 exceeds human capacity to understand or achieve. Wonderful suggests awe-inspiring; the sublime nature of God's knowledge produces appropriate human response of astonishment. The inability to attain or comprehend this knowledge acknowledges the radical difference between divine and human consciousness. This verse expresses submission before the transcendent reality of divine omniscience; human comprehension breaks against the boundary of God's infinite knowledge.

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