Job 36:26
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Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.

God

Job 37:5 God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things.

Psalm 145:3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.

we

Job 11:7-9 Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly? . . .

Job 26:14 Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

Job 37:23 We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

neither

Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Psalm 102:24-27 Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation. . . .

Hebrews 1:12 And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.

2 Peter 3:8 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Context
Elihu Declares God's Justice and Power
25All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off. 26Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable.27He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 13:12
We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

Hebrews 1:12
And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shalt be changed. But thou art the selfsame: and thy years shall not fail.

Job 10:5
Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:

Job 11:7
Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?

Job 36:25
All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.

Job 36:27
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:

Job 37:23
We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.

Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were made, or the earth and the world was formed; from eternity and to eternity thou art God.

Psalm 102:24
Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

Psalm 102:27
But thou art always the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

Lexicon
Indeed,
הֶן־ (hen-)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 2005: Lo! behold!

God [is]
אֵ֣ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

great—
שַׂ֭גִּיא (gî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7689: Mighty

beyond
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

our knowledge;
נֵדָ֑ע (nê·ḏā‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

the number
מִסְפַּ֖ר (mis·par)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration

of His years
שָׁנָ֣יו (šā·nāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8141: A year

is unsearchable.
וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no


Additional Translations
Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.

Behold, the Mighty One is great, and we shall not know him: the number of his years is even infinite.

Lo, God is great, and we comprehend [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.

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

Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

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