Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding 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.
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.
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 son of earth, hath viewed it, Mortal man, looketh at it from afar. 26 Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out! 27 For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;
Phrases
Cross References
Hebrews 1:12
And, as if a robe, wilt thou fold them up, - as a mantle, and they shall be changed; but, thou, art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Job 11:7-9
The hidden depth of GOD canst thou discover? Or, unto the furthest limit of the Almighty, canst thou attain?
Job 37:5
GOD thundereth with his voice, wonderfully, Doing great things, which we cannot know;
Job 37:23
The Almighty, whom we have not fully found out, is great in vigour, - Neither, justice nor abounding righteousness, will he weaken.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For we see, as yet, through a dim window, obscurely, but, then, face to face: as yet, I gain knowledge, in part, but, then, shall I fully know, even as I was also fully known.
1 Kings 8:27
But, in very deed, will God dwell, upon the earth? Lo! the heaven, yea the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?
Job 10:5
As the days of a mortal, are thy days? or, thy years, as the days of a man?
Job 26:14
Lo! these, are the fringes of his way, and what a whisper of a word hath been heard of him! But, the thunder of his might, who could understand?
Psalm 102:24-27
I said, O my GOD, do not remove me in the midst of my days, Throughout the generation of generations, are thy years;
Psalm 145:3
Great is Yahweh - and worthy to be heartily praised, And, his greatness, is unsearchable.
2 Peter 3:8
But, this one thing, forget not, beloved, - that, one day, with the Lord, is as a thousand years, and, a thousand years, as one day.