Job 36:26
Lo, God [is] high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there [is] no searching.
Young's Literal Translation
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 looketh attentively from afar.
27When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27But, is it true? — God dwelleth on the earth! lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens do not contain Thee, how much less this house which I have builded!
Job 11:7By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?
Job 37:5God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great things and we know not.
Psalms 90:2Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God.
Psalms 145:3Great [is] Jehovah, and praised greatly, And of His greatness there is no searching.
Hebrews 1:12and as a mantle Thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed, and 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 →