Job 36:26
New International Version
How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.

New Living Translation
“Look, God is greater than we can understand. His years cannot be counted.

English Standard Version
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

King James Bible
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

New King James Version
“Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; Nor can the number of His years be discovered.

New American Standard Bible
“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.

NASB 1995
“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.

NASB 1977
“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.

Amplified Bible
“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.

Christian Standard Bible
Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of his years cannot be counted.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of His years cannot be counted.

American Standard Version
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Behold, God is mighty and is not known, and the numbering of his years has no end

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know him: the number of his years is even infinite.

Contemporary English Version
how great God is--God is more than we imagine; no one can count the years he has lived. *

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge : the number of his years is inestimable.

English Revised Version
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Certainly, God is so great that he is beyond our understanding. The number of his years cannot be counted.

Good News Translation
We cannot fully know his greatness or count the number of his years.

International Standard Version
"God is truly awesome, beyond what we know; the number of his years is unknowable.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, God is great, beyond our knowledge; The number of His years is unsearchable.

Literal Standard Version
Behold, God [is] high, | And we do not know the number of His years, | Indeed, there [is] no searching.

Majority Standard Bible
Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

New American Bible
See, God is great beyond our knowledge, the number of his years past searching out.

NET Bible
"Yes, God is great--beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.

New Revised Standard Version
Surely God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable.

New Heart English Bible
Look, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

World English Bible
Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.

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Context
Elihu Declares God's Justice and Power
25All mankind has seen it; men behold it from afar. 26Indeed, God is great— beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable. 27For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,…

Cross References
1 Corinthians 13:12
Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Hebrews 1:12
You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end."

Job 10:5
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

Job 11:7
Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?

Job 36:25
All mankind has seen it; men behold it from afar.

Job 36:27
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

Job 37:23
The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.


Treasury of Scripture

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

God

Job 37:5
God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Psalm 145:3
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

we

Job 11:7-9
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? …

Job 26:14
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Job 37:23
Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

neither

Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Psalm 102:24-27
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations…

Hebrews 1:12
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

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Job 36
1. Elihu shows how God is just in his ways
16. How Job's sins hinder God's blessings
24. God's works are to be magnified














Verses 26-33. - Elihu passes now to a description, which must be allowed to be eloquent, of the power and providence of God, and especially of his power in the natural world. It is suggested that the storm, which ultimately broke at the theophania (Job 38:1), was already beginning to gather, and turned the thoughts of Elihu in this direction. He begins with the consideration of how rain is generated, passes rapidly to the gathering of the clouds from all quarters, and thence to the loud crashing of the thunder, and the dazzling flashes of the lightning, which illumine even the lowest depths of the sea (ver. 30). The effects of the storm are then spoken of, in words the exact meaning of which is very obscure (vers. 31-33). Verse 26. - Behold, God is great, and we know him not. This is the final lesson which Elihu seeks to impress on his hearers. God is so great their fully to comprehend him transcends the power of the human understanding. However much we know of him, there is more that we do not know. His nature is unsearchable; his depths (1 Corinthians 2:10) are inscrutable; try as we may, we can never "find him out" (Job 37:23). Neither can the number of his years be searched out. Even his duration, being eternal, is beyond us. We cannot realize the thought of pre- and post-eternity.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Indeed,
הֶן־ (hen-)
Interjection
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

God [is]
אֵ֣ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

great—
שַׂ֭גִּיא (gî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7689: Mighty

beyond
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

our knowledge;
נֵדָ֑ע (nê·ḏā‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's 3045: To know

the number
מִסְפַּ֖ר (mis·par)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration

of His years
שָׁנָ֣יו (šā·nāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

is unsearchable.
וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no


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