²⁶ Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

² Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

¹² They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

¹² For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.

³ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his power may never be searched out.

²³ There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

⁵ He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;

⁷ Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

⁸ They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

⁹ Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

⁸ But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

¹⁴ See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

⁵ Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

²⁷ But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

²⁴ I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

²⁵ In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶ They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:

²⁷ But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.