A Measure Of Ignorance

Ἦ ἴχνος Kυρίου εὑρήσεις ἢ εἰς τὰ ἔσχατα ἀφίκου ἃ ἐποίησεν ὁ παντοκράτωρ. Ὑψηλὸς ὁ οὐρανός καὶ τί ποιήσεις; βαθύτερα δὲ τῶν ἐν ᾅδου· τί οἶδας; ἢ μακρότερα μέτρου γῆς ἢ εὔρους θαλάσσης. Δεϊξαι δὲ βούλεται διὰ πάντων τούτων, ὅτι ἡ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γνῶσις μεμετρημένη ἐστὶ, μὴ ἐφικνουμένη τῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ κριμάτων. Καὶ νῦν γοῦν ὁ οὐρανὸς, φησὶν, ἐστὶ, καὶ ᾅδου βαθύτερα, καὶ μακρότερα γῆς, καὶ τοῦ εὔρους τῆς θαλάσσης, λέγε τι περὶ αὐτῶν, εἰ δύναται. Αἰνίττερται δὲ ἴσως, ὅτι κἂν ἐπιχειρήσῃ τις περὶ γῆς, καὶ θαλάσσης, καὶ οὐρανοῦ λαλῆσαι, ἀλλὰ τὰ ὑπὲρ ἐκεῖνα ἀγνοεῖ. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Τον Ιὠβ Source: Migne PG 39.1147a

Would you seek out the ways of the Lord, or grasp the utmost things the Creator of all has done? High as heaven is where you would reach? Deeper than the things of hell you would know? Further than the length of earth and breadth of the sea? 1 By all these things he wishes it to be understood that the knowledge of man has a certain measure, which is not able to attain to the judgements of God. And now, certainly, do say something, he says, about heaven, and the depths of hell, and the length of the earth, and the breadth of the sea, if you can. For he knows, perhaps, that although concerning the earth and sea and heaven, a man might venture to speak, he will be ignorant of those things which are beyond. Didymus the Blind, On Job 1 Job 11.7-9