Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge : the number of his years is inestimable.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 see him, every one beholdeth afar off.
27He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods :
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?
Job 11:7Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?
Job 37:5God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things.
Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.
Psalms 145:3Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
Hebrews 1:12And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.
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 →