Add parallel Print Page Options

26 Surely God is great, and we do not know him;
    the number of his years is unsearchable.
27 For he draws up the drops of water;
    he distils[a] his mist in rain,
28 which the skies pour down
    and drop upon mortals abundantly.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 36:27 Cn: Heb they distil

26 How great is God—beyond our understanding!(A)
    The number of his years is past finding out.(B)

27 “He draws up the drops of water,(C)
    which distill as rain to the streams[a];(D)
28 the clouds pour down their moisture
    and abundant showers(E) fall on mankind.(F)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 36:27 Or distill from the mist as rain