who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
⛓ Read Job 5 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The unsearchable riches of Christ' transfers to Christ the OT predicate of God who 'does great things unsearchable, marvelous things without number' (Job 5:9; cf. 9:10). The rare adjective 'unsearchable' (anexichniaston in LXX/Pauline usage) is the same lexical field, giving good volume; coherence with Paul's habit of ascribing divine attributes to Christ is high.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number' resonates with v.33's 'unsearchable judgments... past tracing out.' Coheres with the Job-framed doxology that closes with the Job 41:11 citation.
Low confidence