Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 yea, wonder at him, and yet they see him but afar off. 26 Behold, so great is God, that he passeth our knowledge; neither are we able to come to the experience of his years. 27 He turneth the water to small drops, he driveth his clouds
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, before the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting and world without end.
Hebrews 1:12
and as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art always, and thy years shall not fail."
Job 11:7-9
"Wilt thou find out God with thy seeking? Wilt thou attain to the perfectness of the Almighty?
Job 37:5
when God sendeth out his voice: great things doth he, which we can not comprehend.
Job 37:23
It is not we that can find out the Almighty: for in power, equity, and righteousness, he is higher than can be expressed.
1 Corinthians 13:12
Now we see in a glass, even in a dark speaking: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know unperfectly: but then shall I know even as I am known.
1 Kings 8:27
But indeed can God dwell on the earth? Behold: neither heaven, nor heaven above all heavens are able to contain thee - how much less then this house that I have built?
Job 10:5
Are thy days as the days of man, and thy years as man's years,
Job 26:14
This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"
Psalm 102:24-27
Yet will I say, "O my God, take me not away in the midst of my age; as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations."
Psalm 145:3
Great is the LORD, and marvelous, worthy to be praised; there is no end to his greatness.
2 Peter 3:8
Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.