Job 36:26

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The Work and Wisdom of God“Yes, God is great– beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 90:2 : 2 Even before the mountains came into existence, or you brought the world into being, you were the eternal God.
  • Job 37:5 : 5 God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
  • Job 37:23 : 23 As for the Almighty, we cannot attain to him! He is great in power, but justice and abundant righteousness he does not oppress.
  • Job 11:7-9 : 7 “Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty? 8 It is higher than the heavens– what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol– what can you know? 9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
  • Ps 145:3 : 3 The LORD is great and certainly worthy of praise! No one can fathom his greatness!
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.
  • Heb 1:12 : 12 and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.
  • Job 26:14 : 14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 “God does not really live on the earth! Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!
  • Job 10:5 : 5 Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,
  • Ps 102:24-27 : 24 I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations. 25 In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork. 26 They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear. 27 But you remain; your years do not come to an end.

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    27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

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    29Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

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