Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we comprehend him not, the number of his years can truly not be searched out.
Leeser Tanakh
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 at it [with astonishment]; the mortal gazeth at it from afar.
27For he taketh away drops of water, which are purified into rain in his mist:
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27For in truth will God then dwell on the earth? behold, the heavens and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee: how much less then this house that I have built!
Job 11:7Canst thou find out the experience of God? or canst thou find [the way] unto the utmost limit of the Almighty?
Job 37:5God thundereth with his marvelous voice: he doth great things, which we cannot comprehend.
Psalms 90:2Before yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Psalms 145:3Great is the Lord, and greatly praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
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 →