Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God.
Do you listen in on God’s council and restrict wisdom to yourself?
The heart knows its own bitterness, and its joy no stranger shares.
A lamp from the Lord is human life-breath; it searches through the inmost being.
The intention of the human heart is deep water, but the intelligent draw it forth.
More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?
To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
this God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God.