Job 36:26
Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
Bible in Basic English
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 people are looking on it; man sees it from far.
27For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!
Job 11:7Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?
Job 37:5He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;
Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.
Psalms 145:3Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.
Hebrews 1:12They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.
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 →