Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"God is truly awesome, beyond what we know; the number of his years is unknowable.
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.
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 of mankind sees him; human beings observe him from afar off." 26 "God is truly awesome, beyond what we know; the number of his years is unknowable. 27 He draws up drops of water, distilling it to rain and mist.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were formed or the earth and the world were brought forth, you are God from eternity to eternity.
Hebrews 1:12
You will roll them up like a robe, and they will be changed like clothes. But you remain the same, and your life will never end."
Job 11:7-9
"Can you search through God's complex things? Can you uncover the limits of the Almighty?
Job 37:5
"God thunders with his wondrous voice; he does awesome works that we don't comprehend.
Job 37:23
We cannot find the Almighty he is majestic in power and justice, and overflowing with righteousness; he never oppresses.
1 Corinthians 13:12
Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.
1 Kings 8:27
and yet, will God truly reside on earth? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!
Job 10:5
Can you live only as long as a human being? Or live the years of a mortal man?
Job 26:14
Indeed, these are the fringes of his ways, and how faint is the whisper we've heard of it! But who can comprehend the thunder of his might?"
Psalm 102:24-27
I say, "My God, whose years continue through all generations, do not take me in the middle of my life.
Psalm 145:3
The LORD is great, and to be praised highly, though his greatness is indescribable.
2 Peter 3:8
Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.