Job 26:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ These are indeed but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Lo, these are parts of his ways: But how little a portion is heard of him? But the thunder of his power who can understand?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Yet these are but [a small part of His doings] the outskirts of His ways or the mere fringes of His force, the faintest whisper of His voice! Who dares contemplate or who can understand the thunders of His full, magnificent power?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Look, these are only the outer fringe of his ways; we hear only a whispered word about him. Who can understand his thunderous power?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Behold, these things have been said about his ways in part, and, since we barely have heard a small drop of his word, who will be able to gaze upon the thunder of his greatness?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 26:14 Cross References

Job 36:29

Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

Job 37:4

After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

Job 37:5

God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

Job 4:12

“Now a word came stealing to me; my ear received the whisper of it.

Job 40:9

Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Job 42:5

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

Psalm 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.

Psalm 145:3

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable.

Psalm 29:3

The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over mighty waters.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.

Habakkuk 3:4

The brightness was like the sun; rays came forth from his hand, where his power lay hidden.

Romans 11:33

O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

1 Samuel 2:10

The Lord! His adversaries will be shattered; the Most High will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed.”