Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
In Context
25All men have looked on it. Man beholds it afar off.
27For he draws up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapor,
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. How much less this house that I have built!
Job 11:7Can thou find out God by searching? Can thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
Job 37:5God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things which we cannot comprehend.
Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.
Psalms 145:3Great is LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Hebrews 1:12And thou will roll them up as a mantle, and they will be changed. But thou are the same, and thy years will not cease.
Matthew Henry on Job 36:25-33
24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. 25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. 26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. 29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? 30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the… Read the whole commentary →