Contradictions and Paradoxes in Psalms 139:2

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Psalms 139:2 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Psalms 139:2. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author, David, God knows when we sit down and when we stand up, and He even knows what we are thinking from far away. This means God is always watching over us and understands everything about us.

Psalms 139:2: Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:10

This verse states that the Lord searches the heart and tests the mind, suggesting separate moments of investigation rather than an inherent, constant knowing as implied in Psalms 139:2.

Jeremiah 17:10: I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:17

This verse indicates that humans cannot fully understand the work of God, which contrasts with the idea in Psalms 139:2 that God has complete understanding of human actions and thoughts.

Ecclesiastes 8:17: Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yea further; though a wise [man] think to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].

Contradiction with 1 Kings 8:39

It suggests that God alone knows the hearts of all men, which might imply a more selective or conditional knowing rather than the immediate and constant perception in Psalms 139:2.

1 Kings 8:39: Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, [even] thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
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