Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
Note d'étude
Study Note
The declaration that God's thoughts and ways are higher than human thoughts and ways appears in an appeal to return to God (verses 6-7) followed by the promise that God's word accomplishes its purpose (verses 10-11). The spatial metaphor ('as the heavens are higher than the earth') conveys both qualitative difference and the impossibility of human comprehension of divine reasoning. In context, the verse reassures those who doubt whether God's mercy is sufficient for forgiveness — the argument being that God's forgiveness exceeds any human analog of mercy. It is often quoted in pastoral contexts of suffering where God's purposes are opaque, though its original context addresses the incomprehensibility of divine grace, not suffering.
Autres traductions
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.
For not My thoughts <FI>are<Fi> your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, --an affirmation of Jehovah,
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
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