Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years is unsearchable.

King James Version

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Holman Bible

Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge;
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.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, God is high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there is no searching.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

is great
שׂגּיא 
Saggiy' 
Usage: 2

him not, neither can the number
מספּר 
Micpar 
Usage: 132

of his years
שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

References

Watsons

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Greatness

25 All mankind has seen it. Men gaze on it from afar. 26 “Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years is unsearchable.
27 He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams.

Cross References

Psalm 90:2

Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and its inhabitants, you are God from everlasting to everlasting.

Hebrews 1:12

Just as a coat you fold them up, and they will be changed: but you are the same, and your years will never run out.

Job 11:7-9

Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Job 37:5

At God's command amazing things happen, wonderful things that we cannot understand.

Job 37:23

We cannot find the Almighty. He is exalted in power but will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror dimly, and then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

1 Kings 8:27

Can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even heaven or the heaven of heavens is large enough to hold you. How can this Temple I have built be large enough?

Job 10:5

Are your days like those of a mortal or are your years like those of a man?

Job 26:14

These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear from him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?

Psalm 102:24-27

I say: O my God, do not take me away in the middle of my days, your years are throughout all generations.

Psalm 145:3

Great is Jehovah, and highly to be praised. His greatness is unsearchable (beyond human calculation).

2 Peter 3:8

Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Psalm 90:1, 4)

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