Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, God is great, and we shall not know the number of his years, and it was not searched out
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.
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 Every man looked upon it; man shall see from far off. 26 Behold, God is great, and we shall not know the number of his years, and it was not searched out 27 For he will withhold the drops of water: they will pour out rain for its vapor.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were born, and the earth shall be begun, and the habitable globe, and from forever even to forever, thou art God.
Hebrews 1:12
And as a cloak shalt thou turn them round, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Job 11:7-9
Searching shalt thou and God? Shalt thou find the Almighty even to completeness?
Job 37:5
God will thunder with his voice of wonder, doing great things, and we shall not know.
Job 37:23
The Almighty we found not: great of power and judgment, and much justice, he will not afflict
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see by a mirror in an enigma; then face to face: now I know by parts; and then shall I know as I was known.
1 Kings 8:27
For truly shall God dwell upon the earth? Behold the heavens and the heavens of the heavens shall not contain thee; much less this house which I built
Job 10:5
Are thy days as man's days? or thy years as the days of man?
Job 26:14
Behold these the ends of his ways; how transient a sound of the word was heard in him! and the thunder of his might who shall understand?
Psalm 102:24-27
Saying, O my God, thou wilt not take me away in the half of my days: thy years in generations of generations.
Psalm 145:3
Great is Jehovah, and being greatly praised; and to his greatness no search.
2 Peter 3:8
And let not this one thing be unknown to you, dearly beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.