In many respects, wisdom is a communicable attribute of God shared by God’s rational creatures. But whatever measure of wisdom we possess, Scripture and general revelation make it clear that our wisdom is limited, temporal and changeable. God’s wisdom is infinite, eternal and unchangeable.

Theologians typically stress the incommunicable dimensions of God’s wisdom by referring to God’s omniscience and his incomprehensibility.

The omniscience of God is the fact that God possesses knowledge of all things. Job 37:16 refers to God’s “perfect knowledge.” Hebrews 4:13 says that “nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight.” And Psalm 33:15 says that “God considers” — or understands — “everything people do.” Many other passages illustrate the omniscience of God by pointing out things that God knows that we do not. For instance, in Jeremiah 23:24, God asked, “Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?”

The incommunicable character of God’s wisdom is also emphasized in the doctrine of the incomprehensibility of God. This terminology doesn't imply that we can’t know anything of the mind of God. On the contrary, we know portions of his thoughts as he reveals them to us. But God’s wisdom is incommunicable in the sense that God’s thoughts cannot be fully known. As Paul said in Romans 11:33, God’s judgments and paths are “unsearchable … beyond tracing out.” Job 11:7 declares that we cannot “fathom the mysteries of God.” Psalm 139:6 declares, "God’s knowledge is too wonderful … to attain.” Similar passages like 1 Samuel 16:7 also indicate that one of the ways God is different from his creation is that, unlike us, his wisdom is infinite, eternal and unchangeable.