Job 37:23
Good News Translation
God's power is so great that we cannot come near him; he is righteous and just in his dealings with us.

New Revised Standard Version
The Almighty —we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

Contemporary English Version
God cannot be seen--but his power is great, and he is always fair.

New American Bible
The Almighty! We cannot find him, preeminent in power and judgment, abundant in justice, who never oppresses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

we

Job 37:19 Shew us what we may say to him: or we are wrapped up in darkness.

Job 11:7 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 36:26 Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.

Proverbs 30:3,4 I have not learned wisdom, and have not known the science of saints. . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:11 He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.

Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him.

Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

1 Timothy 6:16 Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

excellent

Job 9:4,19 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace? . . .

Job 12:13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

Job 36:5 God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.

Psalm 62:11 God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God,

Psalm 65:6 Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power:

Psalm 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.

Psalm 93:1 The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established the world which shall not be moved.

Psalm 99:4 And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

Psalm 146:6,7 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them. . . .

Isaiah 45:21 Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me.

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.

in judgment

Psalm 36:5-7 O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth even to the clouds. . . .

he will

Job 16:7-17 But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me. . . .

Psalm 30:5 For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In the evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.

Lamentations 3:32,33 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. . . .

Hebrews 12:10 And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

Context
Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
22Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear. 23We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.24Therefore men shall fear him, and all that seem to themselves to be wise, shall not dare to behold him.…
Cross References
Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

1 Timothy 6:16
Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting. Amen.

Job 8:3
Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

Job 9:4
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

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

Job 11:8
He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?

Job 25:2
Power and terror are with him, who maketh peace in his high places.

Job 36:3
I will repeat my knowledge from the beginning, and I will prove my Maker just.

Job 36:5
God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.

Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.

Job 37:22
Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.

Ecclesiastes 7:24
Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

Lamentations 3:33
Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

Ezekiel 18:23
Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live?

Ezekiel 18:32
For I desire not the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye and live.

Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Job 37:22
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