“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
Job 36:26 - Revised Standard Version Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, Neither can the number of his years be searched out. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, God is great, and we know Him not! The number of His years is unsearchable. [I Cor. 13:12.] American Standard Version (1901) Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable. Common English Bible Look, God is exalted and unknowable; the number of his years is beyond counting. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, God is great, defeating our knowledge; the number of his years is inestimable. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge: the number of his years is inestimable. |
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
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?”
The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power and justice, and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things which we cannot comprehend.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
like a mantle thou wilt roll them up, and they will be changed. But thou are the same, and thy years will never end.”
But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.