For the Lord knoweth all knowledge, and hath beheld the signs of the world, he declareth the things that are past, and the things that are to come, and revealeth the traces of hidden things.

“Signs. Literally, “sign,” the order of the stars, &c. (Haydock) — Yet God does not study these things, to discover what will happen. He is the author of nature. (Calmet) — From his works we are to form some idea of his greatness, Job xxxviii., &c. (Worthington)”

“For the Lord hath known, etc. Because all the ages of the world are present to him, with whom nothing is past, nothing to come; he alone reveals mysteries, who knows the hearts of each, who beholds all thoughts and words.”