Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Holman Bible
the number of His years cannot be counted.
International Standard Version
"God is truly awesome, beyond what we know; the number of his years is unknowable.
A Conservative Version
Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
American Standard Version
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.
Amplified
“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years is unsearchable.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
Darby Translation
Lo, God is great, and we comprehend him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, God is great, and we shall not know the number of his years, and it was not searched out
King James 2000
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Look, God [is] exalted, and we do not know [him]; the number of his years is unsearchable.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, God is great, and we do not know; the number of His years cannot be searched out.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, so great is God, that he passeth our knowledge; neither are we able to come to the experience of his years.
NET Bible
"Yes, God is great -- beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out!
Webster
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.
Interlinear
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References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 36:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Greatness
25 All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar. 26 Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching. 27 When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 90:2
Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou art God.
Hebrews 1:12
and as a mantle Thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed, and Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.'
Job 11:7-9
By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?
Job 37:5
God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great things and we know not.
Job 37:23
The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,
1 Corinthians 13:12
for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;
1 Kings 8:27
But, 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 10:5
As the days of man are Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
Job 26:14
Lo, these are the borders of His way, And how little a matter is heard of Him, And the thunder of His might Who doth understand?
Psalm 102:24-27
I say, 'My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations are Thine years.
Psalm 145:3
Great is Jehovah, and praised greatly, And of His greatness there is no searching.
2 Peter 3:8
And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;