Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
World English Bible Classic
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 sees it afar off.
27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
Job 11:7“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
Job 37:5God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.
Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Psalms 145:3Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
Hebrews 1:12You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t 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 →