DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Not in the Bible. It's a paraphrase of William Cowper's 1773 hymn: "God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform."
Why it’s interesting
Cowper wrote it after a period of deep personal darkness, which gives the line its weight. Hymns have quietly supplied a lot of "the Bible says," and this is one of the most-quoted.
Scholarly consensus
You can know the Bible.
Not just the stories, but the history, authorship, and scholarship behind it.