Job 36:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 36:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold, God is great, and we know him not - That is, we cannot fully comprehend him; see the notes at Job 11:7-9 . Neither can the number of his years be searched out - That is, he is eterna...

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• Job 36:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Behold, God [is] great, (r) and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. (r) Our infirmity hinders us so that we cannot attain the perfect knowledge of God.

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• Job 36:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  God is great who can teach like Him? Can man command or criticise Him? Man's part is to magnify his work in psalms, though only beholding it from afar, and unable to comprehend it.

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• Job 36:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  is great. See note on Job 36:5 . His years. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

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• Job 36:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. God is great - He is omnipotent. We know him not - He is unsearchable. Neither can the number of...

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• Job 36:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. God's greatness in heaven and earth: a reason why Job should bow under His afflicting hand. K...

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• Job 36:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Speeches of Elihu (continued) 1-15. Elihu maintains the wisdom and impartial justice of the rule of God. His purpose is to discipline and improve men, even by their afflictions.

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• Job 36:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVI. THE DIVINE PREROGATIVE Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 ; Job 37:1-24 AFTER a long digression Elihu returns to consider the statement ascribed to Job, "It profiteth a man nothing that he shou...

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• Job 36:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  He Despiseth not Any Job 36:1-33 God is mighty, but He does not despise thee, though thou be the least of saints. His eyes are upon thee for good, and He will set thee before His throne forever...

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• Job 36:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  After answering the arguments of Job, as expressed in the quotations, there would seem to have been a pause. Then Elihu commenced his last address. He first appealed to Job to hear him, as he was ab...

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• Job 36:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (22) Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? (23) Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? (24) В¶ Remember that thou magnify his work, which men b...

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• Job 36:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, God [is] great ,.... In his power and might, in his wisdom and knowledge, in his truth and faithfulness, in his love, grace, and mercy, and that to admiration; and it is worthy of notice and...

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• Job 36:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. Ver. 26. Behold, God is great ] Yea, he is maximus in minimis, greatest and most of all seen i...

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• Job 36:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, God is great Infinite in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and all perfections, and therefore just in all his ways; and we know him not Namely, perfectly. Though we see something of him in...

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• Job 36:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  SPEAKING ON GOD'S BEHALF (vv.1-4) Elihu continues in the same strain, for as he says, there is much more to be said on God's behalf. Where did Elihu find his knowledge? He fetched it "from afar"...

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• Job 36:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.   25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.   26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number o...

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• Job 36:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  God is great; infinite in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and all perfections, and therefore just in all his ways. We know him not, to wit, perfectly. Though we see something of him in his works,...

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• Job 36:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH No reply being made to Elihu’s preceding address, he resumes. Job 36:1 .—“Elihu also proceded and said”. His object to bring Job to a more becoming state of mind in refere...

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• Job 36:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 36:3 . I will fetch my knowledge from afar; from the expanse of heaven, and from the remotest traditions of the sires. Natural theology is very instructive to man, to acquaint us with the perf...

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• Job 36:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

  God is great, and we know Him not. The knowledge of God These words recall the supreme questions which divide hostile philosophies. Even Christian apologists have maintained that God is inacces...

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• Job 36:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 36:1-18 The two chapters, Job 36:1-18 ; Job 37:1-18 , form a single discourse, and ought not to have been separated; or, at any rate, not so unskilfully as they are, in the...

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• Job 36:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Divine Justice as Supreme Power and Wisdom

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• Job 36:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 8:27 ; 2 Peter 3:8 ; Hebrews 1:12 ; Job 11:7-9 ; Job 26:14 ; Job 37:23 ; Job 37:5 ; Psalms 102:24-27 ; Psalms 145:3 ; Psalms 90:2

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• Job 36:26 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  High Altitudes in Elihu's Answer to Job Job 32:1-22 , Job 33:1-33 ; Job 34:1-37 ; Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We now come to that part of the Book of Job which present...

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• Job 36:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Neither — He is eternal, as in his being, so in all his counsels; which therefore must be infinitely above the comprehension of short — lived men.

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