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eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) cxliv. 18 Iustus dominus in omnibus uiis suis : rehtwis dryhten in allum wegum his.

OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xxxii. 4 Godes weorc synd fulfremede & ealle his wegas synd domas.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. viii. 22 The Lord weldide me [sc. Wisdom] in the begynnyng of his weies [so 1535 Coverdale, 1611 King James way; L. viarum].

a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 124 (MED) Þe domys of God been incomprehensible..No man may tracyn hese weyis.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. xi. 33 Howe incomprehensible are his iudgementes, and hys wayes vnserchable [1611 King James his wayes past finding out; 1961 New Eng. untraceable his ways].

1533 J. More tr. F. Nausea Serm. Sacram. of Aulter sig. d Howe incomprehensyble be his iudgementes? how inuestygable his ways? For who knewe the mynde of oure lorde, or who was his counsaylour?

1640 Whole Bk. Psalmes: ‘Bay Psalm Bk.’ Pref. sig. *2 Such is the subtilty of the enemie, and the enmity of our nature against the Lord, & his wayes, that our hearts can finde matter of discord in this harmony.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 413 To attaine The highth and depth of thy Eternal wayes All human thoughts come short, Supream of things. View more context for this quotation

1738 Countess of Hartford in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) I. 28 It..tells us..that a day will come when the ways of Providence will be cleared up.

1840 Merchants' Mag. Feb. 111 The results to which we shall be led by those inquiries can only be a more extended knowledge of the ways of the Creator.

1884 J. Sibree tr. G. W. F. Hegel Lect. Philos. Hist. (new ed.) 16 A justification of the ways of God..in indefinite abstract categories.

1973 J. Bayly View from Hearse (rev. ed.) xviii. 104 The ones who want an answer to the problem of suffering must get behind and beyond the acts of God, as Moses did, and discern His ways.

2011 L. Thomas Conscience i. 11 One child died, six lived. The Thomas parents explained that inexplicable calculus to themselves the same way that their own parents had: The ways of God are unknowable, and tragedy is a fact of life.