²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

¹² And as a mantle shalt thou roll them up, As a garment, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.

¹² For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

³ Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; And his greatness is unsearchable.

²³ `Touching' the Almighty, we cannot find him out He is excellent in power; And in justice and plenteous righteousness he will not afflict.

⁵ God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

⁷ Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

⁸ It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

⁹ The measure thereof is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.

⁸ But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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?

⁵ Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days,

²⁷ But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!

²⁴ I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.

²⁵ Of old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of thy hands.

²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

²⁷ But thou art the same, And thy years shall have no end.