Job 36:26
Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
25Every son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar.
27For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27But, in very deed, will God dwell, upon the earth? Lo! the heaven, yea the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?
Job 11:7The hidden depth of GOD canst thou discover? Or, unto the furthest limit of the Almighty, canst thou attain?
Job 37:5GOD thundereth with his voice, wonderfully, Doing great things, which we cannot know;
Psalms 90:2Before, the mountains, were born, Or thou hadst brought forth the earth and the world, Even, from age to age, thou, [wast] GOD.
Psalms 145:3Great is Yahweh—and worthy to be heartily praised, And, his greatness, is unsearchable.
Hebrews 1:12And, as if a robe, wilt thou fold them up,—as a mantle, and they shall be changed; but, thou, art the same, 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 →