Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, defeating our knowledge; the number of his years is inestimable.
Catholic Public Domain 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 consider him; and each one ponders from a distance.
27He carries away the drops of rain, and he sends forth showers like a raging whirlpool;
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27Is it, then, to be understood that truly God would dwell upon the earth? For if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, are not able to contain you, how much less this house, which I have built?
Job 11:7By chance, will you comprehend the footsteps of God and reach all the way to the perfection of the Almighty?
Job 37:5God will thunder with his voice miraculously, for he performs great and unsearchable things.
Psalms 90:2He will say to the Lord, “You are my supporter and my refuge.” My God, I will hope in him.
Psalms 145:3in the sons of men, in whom there is no salvation.
Hebrews 1:12And you will change them like a cloak, and they shall be changed. Yet you are ever the same, and your years will not diminish.”
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 →