Job 36:26
Good News Translation
We cannot fully know his greatness or count the number of his years.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

God

Job 37:5 God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things.

Psalm 145:3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.

we

Job 11:7-9 Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly? . . .

Job 26:14 Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

Job 37:23 We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

neither

Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Psalm 102:24-27 Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation. . . .

Hebrews 1:12 And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.

2 Peter 3:8 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Context
Elihu Declares God's Justice and Power
25All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off. 26Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.27He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 13:12
We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

Hebrews 1:12
And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.

Job 10:5
Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:

Job 11:7
Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?

Job 36:25
All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.

Job 36:27
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:

Job 37:23
We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Psalm 102:24
Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

Psalm 102:27
But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

Job 36:25
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